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Frank Answers About Embodied Theology

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:August 22, 2022
  • Post category:naked before God/theology

A few years ago I was contacted by a European Catholic priest who is a member of a religious order and a writer on spirituality. His email included questions to…

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Read more about the article Frank Answers About Jesus and Male Intimacy

Frank Answers About Jesus and Male Intimacy

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:July 29, 2022
  • Post category:Bible/friendship/Jesus/male issue

Question: What do you make of the “beloved disciple” in the New Testament? Is it possible that Jesus and John had a, let us say, very “intimate" relationship? Or, to…

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Read more about the article Frank Answers Some Personal Issues Regarding Masturbation

Frank Answers Some Personal Issues Regarding Masturbation

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:July 28, 2022
  • Post category:autoeroticism/male issue/masturbation/pornography

It's not surprising that I received several questions about masturbation during the years of the COVID pandemic. Solo sex was promoted by health agencies like the Mayo Clinic as a…

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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 Massage and Healing Touch

Frank Answers About Massage and Healing Touch

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:June 4, 2022
  • Post category:healing/human touch/massage

This question about getting a massage was asked in May 2021, when it seemed (prematurely) that we were emerging from the dark days of COVID-19:  As a college guy, I…

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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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