Sexual Coercion and Marital Rape

By Vanessa Snyder, PhD, LPC, LMFT, CST, MT, CSAT-C Resilience Source A few months ago, I was teaching a section of a course dealing with trauma, sexual assault and rape to over 200 theology and counseling graduate students from nine countries in Eastern Europe and...
Hope and Healing for Sexual Compulsion

Hope and Healing for Sexual Compulsion

By Troy and Melissa Haas If you struggle with using your sexuality in unhealthy and sinful ways, there is hope for healing and recovery. We know that looking for help for addictive or problematic sexual behaviors can be a confusing and overwhelming endeavor. And if...
Hope and Healing for Sexual Compulsion

Help. It hurts when I have sex. – For men.

We are sorry. No matter what you might have been told, sex is not supposed to hurt. Painful sex for men is not discussed often but isn’t uncommon. In the Marriage Intimacy Project study, 8%[1] of males said they experienced pain with sex at least half (50%) of the...