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Frank Answers About Human Sexuality and Religion

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:December 18, 2025
  • Post category:churches/family/marriage/sex/theology
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Question: Whether it is contraceptives, abortions, divorce, re-marriage, same-sex relationships, etc., the Catholic Church, and religions generally, seem obsessed about sex, and seek to exert control over believers in the…

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Read more about the article Frank Answers About Yoga, Tantra, and Sex

Frank Answers About Yoga, Tantra, and Sex

  • Post author:Ben
  • Post published:November 7, 2022
  • Post category:sex/tantra/yoga

Question: There seems to be a conservative Christian reaction to the practice of yoga. It is accused not only of being an alien spirituality but some forms of esoteric yoga…

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Read more about the article Frank Answers About Masturbation and Prayer

Frank Answers About Masturbation and Prayer

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:July 18, 2022
  • Post category:fantasizing/masturbation/prayer/sex

This was a question I answered in the Frank Answers on the Immanuel Lutheran Church web site in 2013, the year I retired. I felt that the church needed to…

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Read more about the article Frank Preaches on Marriage and Divorce

Frank Preaches on Marriage and Divorce

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:June 23, 2022
  • Post category:divorce/marriage/sermon/sex

June has been traditionally the month for weddings. I am posting here a sermon I preached in 2021 based on lectionary readings that came up later in the summer. Texts:…

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Read more about the article Frank Answers About Experiencing a Low Libido

Frank Answers About Experiencing a Low Libido

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:June 5, 2022
  • Post category:anxiety/libido/sex

Question: I’m a healthy young man who works at home on the computer most of the time. I’ve been married a few years and my wife goes to her job…

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Read more about the article Frank Answers About Recovering Connections and Touch

Frank Answers About Recovering Connections and Touch

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:May 29, 2022
  • Post category:human touch/massage/sex/worship

During the pandemic we missed human touch and need to recover it in worship, sex, and massage.

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