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Catholic Intimacy’s 2024 Year-in-Review
For Couples James Walther, MA, ABS For Couples James Walther, MA, ABS

Catholic Intimacy’s 2024 Year-in-Review

As we close the chapter on 2024, we are filled with gratitude for the growth, challenges, and countless blessings this year has brought. Catholic Intimacy continues to be a space for married couples to grow closer to each other and God, building healthy, holy, and intimate relationships rooted in faith. This year has been one of expansion, resilience, and exciting steps forward.

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Take the Life Ring!
For Couples James Walther, MA, ABS For Couples James Walther, MA, ABS

Take the Life Ring!

Although the rates are lower than the general population, Catholics do get divorced. Far more live for years and even the rest of their lives in unhappy marriages. For many couples, including those who would say that their marriage is strong, sex is a point of division rather than unity. This can come from a variety of factors. There may be sexual trauma, sex may be painful, there may be a fear of getting pregnant, there may be emotional or physical abuse or neglect. For some couples, sex is a bargaining chip or a manipulation tool.

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Common Objections to Coaching
For Couples James Walther, MA, ABS For Couples James Walther, MA, ABS

Common Objections to Coaching

Even after doing this for a couple of years, I still get excited when I get a new client. I really enjoy helping people to have more satisfying and fulfilling sex lives and in turn better marriages. It has been such a blessing for me to see marriages transform through this process. This transformation is what Catholic Intimacy is all about. It is what we pray for, have masses offered for, and have even suffered for. But not everyone is ready for change.

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Bad Sex: How to Stop Having It
For Couples James Walther, MA, ABS For Couples James Walther, MA, ABS

Bad Sex: How to Stop Having It

So the majority of my clients come to me with one goal in mind: stop having bad sex. Now what makes sex bad looks different for each couple, but by and large the number one reason is that the wife just doesn’t enjoy it. I can help with that. There is no good reason to settle for bad sex.

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What Do I Have to Offer?
For Couples James Walther, MA, ABS For Couples James Walther, MA, ABS

What Do I Have to Offer?

Here’s the big question: what do you have to offer? In other words, why should anyone want to commit themselves to you exclusively for life? That’s a million-dollar question.

Everyone has a type, i.e., certain characteristics that they find attractive. We all know (or knew) what characteristics we are (were) looking for in our spouse. We tend to have pretty lofty ideals. But let’s flip that around. If our future spouse is as magnificent as we imagine, then should we not expect that they too have high standards for who they want to be with? Do we meet the criteria of someone that meets our criteria?

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