by Andrew Jasko | Apr 26, 2019 | Religious Trauma, Sexuality
Interview on Liz LaPoint ‘s The Naked Advice Blog on The Impact of Religious Sexual Teachings and Healing Please follow and like...
by Andrew Jasko | Jan 26, 2019 | Psychology, Religious Trauma, Sexuality
Sexual violence is commonplace in the biblical narrative. It is perhaps most X-rated in Jesus’s recommendations for mutilation of the male anatomy in castration and emasculation. As a young boy, I was terrified when I heard Jesus’s suggestions that I mutilate myself...
by Andrew Jasko | Aug 12, 2018 | Religious Trauma, Sexuality, Spirituality
Many of us have learned to associate sex with hurtful things. Reclaiming Sexuality means breaking those negative associations by giving yourself healthy, life-affirming messages. Sex is not about shame, abuse, or fear. This is what sex means: Love. Life. Pleasure....
by Andrew Jasko | Aug 10, 2018 | Sexuality, Spirituality
Is there a greater meaning in life than art? What is the point of it all: All the dramas we live through and create, the ant hills we spend our lives building knowing there’s a maniacal toddler lurking in the shadows? The whole universe is engaged in an unending act...
by Andrew Jasko | Aug 10, 2018 | Sexuality, Spirituality
Masturbation has been a sweet tool for me in learning sexual self-restraint. I have tended to give my body away too easily, driven by raw desire in the moment. I want my kiss to really mean something. Any part of myself I choose to open to another; I want that to mean...
by Andrew Jasko | Jul 19, 2018 | Religious Trauma, Sexuality
Millions of Christians have an abusive kind of relationship with Jesus, a spiritual romance of sorts. (I do not consider all relationships to Jesus inherently abusive; I speak to harmful interpretations of Jesus.) I used to be in an abusive relationship with this man,...