Doug Hammack
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Sexuality Interrupted: A Story
There’s More to Sex Than the Orgasm Sexuality is a life-long journey encompassing a profound depth of our humanity. Over a lifetime, eroticism comes and goes. Even romantic friendship waxes and wanes. The ancient Greeks taught us an important stage on ...
Evolution, Brain Chemistry, and the Stages of Love
Chemical Love Is a Real Thing… But Not the Whole Thing It turns out, that the powerful and intoxicating brain chemicals that make us crazy-in-love, serve another purpose as well — they are actually bonding agents.
Margaret Mead and the Sexuality of the Greeks
Sexuality Is Progressive — Not Static If we’re paying attention, our sexuality carries us along on a journey. Eroticism is only the first stop (a really nice one, but only the first). Margaret Meade suggested that all women need three husbands.
Push-Up Bras and Six-Pack Abs
Sexuality is Deep. Really Deep! As a culture, we tend to reduce our most primal drive to connect and to create — we tend to reduce it to push-up-bra eroticism, and then use it to sell cars. Not the best way to experience our deepest humanity.
Rethinking Sex Ed. What We’re Doing Isn’t Working
Welcome to this new podcast on Rethinking Sex Education. In this episode, we explore the five core institutions that make up a society. When there is a society-wide problem, this is who we call upon to solve it.
Sex Education
Dear Blog Readers: - I'm writing a new book on teaching sexuality to our young people. The subtitle will be something like, "The Failure of Christian Sex Education." - I'll be using this blog to write the rough draft via podcast.
Overwhelmed by the Homemade Self
I think I’m a good guy. A few will disagree, but not many. All my life I’ve worked hard to apply the virtue curriculum. I’ve studied ethics and religion, and lived accordingly. Again, I think the general consensus . . . good guy. But growing up, no
Overwhelmed: An Earthworm Story
There’s a lake near my house circled by an asphalt footpath. I’ve walked around that lake more times than I can count. One day after a summer rain, the earthworms were out. They do that. When the asphalt gets wet, they come out to bask in puddles of w
The Curse of the Overwhelm
Do a little bit of good where you are. Those little bits put together . . . overwhelm the world – Desmond Tutu. We Americans grow up with a pretty heavy emphasis on personal responsibility. “If it is to be, it is up to me!” (Maybe you heard t
How Did She Do That?
There was once a wise old woman traveling a long and dusty road. On her journey she crossed a clear, cool stream. As she knelt to quench her thirst, she saw a sparkling stone beneath the water. Reaching in, she pulled out a rare, precious, and beautiful g