I love God. I love sex. I am married. This book is about reclaiming sex in Christianity. So often we are told that sex is bad or we aren't told about sex at all in church. This book helps us reclaim our sexuality in God. it helps us realize that God has a beautiful plan for us and that does include sex. But not before marriage, not homosexuality, nor being transgender and no pornography. In essence, Not what the world tells us it needs to be. This book has the same stance as many churches that homosexuality is wrong. That those feelings are just desires and should be ignored. I don't take that stance. I can appreciate the authors stance. It's just not mine. It was hard to get through the book because I'm already married. I had premarital sex, was sexually molested and have sexual baggage. This book is supposed to be freeing but in my experience, it did the opposite. It tells you that you are wrong and we shouldn't live that way. I think forgiveness goes a long way and I can't change my past. So I have to pray and ask forgiveness and move on. Stop beating myself up. This book basically said that but then went on and on about it. So it's helpful in some areas and not helpful in others.

I have read other books by Dr.Juli Slattery and have not enjoyed them. I was hesitant to read this but was interested in the topic. I think that "Rethinking Sexuality" is everything we are missing in purity culture. I was always taught that sex is sin. Sin is wrong. Sex is wrong. That message is damaging and hurtful to the intended gift that sex is.

This book dives into God's design for sex. It is based on the fact that we are all sexually broken and that the enemy attacks sex because is is an illustration of God's redemption story. It teaches us to recognize the enemy's attacks for what they are against our sexuality. I was inspired and encouraged by this book. I plan to use it in my ministry and share it with many of my closest friends!

I was not a fan of this book. It reads like a very long sermon on the importance of 1) getting married, and 2) having martial sex, and it presents the same argument against homosexuality (among other examples of "deviant" sexuality) that have been made a hundred times before. The difference is the author's condemnation seems to come from a place of genuine concern and misguided compassion, rather than hatred and holier-than-thou intolerance.