Doug Hammack

Doug Hammack


Latest Episodes

A Slow Hand, An Easy Touch (1 of 3)
February 11, 2016

When Religion Gets Sexuality Right… We have a lot to offer. Our ancient sexual wisdom speaks to a healthy and helpful pacing for sexual relationships. In these three episodes, we look at the research of zoologist and anthropologist, Desmond Morris.

Christians, Sex, Yin, and Yang (2 of 2)
February 04, 2016

Masculinizing Society. Masculinizing Sex. It’s an age old story. Males win. Females lose. It happens in our society. It happens in our beds. And when it happens, everybody loses. In the East there is a way of thinking that offers us a path forward.

Christians, Sex, Yin, and Yang (1 of 2)
January 28, 2016

Masculinizing Society. Masculinizing Sex It’s an age old story. Males win. Females lose. It happens in our society. It happens in our beds. And when it happens, everybody loses. In the East there is a way of thinking that offers us a path forward.

Religion and Sex: We’re in a Pickle
January 21, 2016

Christian Sex: Doubling Down on a Bad Hand Back in the 1960s, the sexual revolution presented an opportunity to Christians. It invited us to rethink the “dirty sex” instincts we picked up back in the second century. But that’s not what happened.

Christians and Dirty Sex: Subtle Like Cancer
January 14, 2016

. Saying sex is dirty, is pretty uncool these days. So Christian folk don’t say it out loud. We’re much more subtle now. However, instincts as ancient as our dirty-sex ones, don’t go away easily. In our case, they just went underground.

Christians and Sex: We Owe Folks an Apology
January 07, 2016

. We’re Sorry! Through the centuries, we Christian folk have gotten pretty twisted up about sex. Most don’t know how it happened, which makes it really hard to get untwisted when we try. But we’re trying. You’ve probably never heard of Clement of Alexa...

How Sex Got Dirty (Thanks a Lot, Plato!)
December 17, 2015

Church folk have a reputation for being sexually repressed. Thank goodness it’s not always true! But unfortunately it’s true often enough. All that sexual repression came from somewhere — and Greek philosophy played a major role.

Talking About Sex is Tough!
December 09, 2015

The sexual journey is a tough one. Young folks could really use someone who has been on the journey a while. They need a road map to help them navigate what’s coming. But that’s easy to say . . . not so easy to do.

Going All The Way: The Sexual Journey
June 17, 2015

. The Climax of The Sexual Journey… Doesn’t Happen During Intercourse The sexual journey culminates in our deep and primal desire to connect being fulfilled. Erotic hunger serves that deeper desire. Biology, and loneliness,

Sex for a Lifetime: Finishing Well
June 02, 2015

In the last several episodes, I’ve been making the case that our sexuality thrusts us forward on a journey much more expansive than the singular experience of eroticism. When we don’t see the whole picture, we limit our sexuality — which costs us.