Nick StumboExecutive Director driving healing from sexual brokenness

The "sex talk" should be a conversation #podcast #puredesire

5 May 2023

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A short podcast-style YouTube conversation (uploaded May 5, 2023 by Nick Stumbo) about how parents should approach the "sex talk" with their children. Speakers emphasize that parents are often fearful, sometimes with unshared personal histories (speaker A admits to a past abortion and premarital sex), and argue parents should educate themselves, set boundaries, and avoid shaming children—especially when children encounter porn without prior guidance.

Parents are scared to talk to their kids. Let's address the mom that knows and maybe her daughter knows. She knows, but there's been no conversation. I myself had an abortion. I actually had sex with her dad before marriage, but we can't tell her that.
Yeah. I think before you ever approach your child, you need to educate yourself on how to have this conversation. That conversation is very important because you don't want to come at it with a bunch of shame. Like, you don't want to come at them like, oh, you're in trouble because you did this. They needs to be boundaries put in place. Yes, there needs to be a conversation that needs to take place. But you can't come at them with shame because if they never had a conversation with you before about porn or sex, and they came across porn online and then they became intrigued by that and hooked on that, is that really their fault?
Right.
You know, they didn't know what they were getting themselves into.