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After a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology: A Ten-Year Retrospective

Ten years ago, my article “Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology” was published in Dialogue.[1] I did not know what to expect when it made its way into the world, but it ended up being a…

Queer Bodies, Queer Technologies, and Queer Policies

Though there is a well-established conversation on how reproductive technologies and policies influence cisgender, heterosexual women’s bodies within Mormonism, there is a less established conversation on how reproductive technologies and policies are affecting LGBTQ+ Saints.[1]…

Hug a Queer Latter-day Saint

Blaire Ostler has written a number of pieces, from personal essays, poetry, to articles, that are worth noting. Her article, “Queer Polygamy,” is an innovating mashup that looks beyond monogamy as the only authorizing type…

Review: A Private Revelation William Victor Smith. Textual Studies of the Doctrine and Covenants: The Plural Marriage Revelation

Review: Revealing the Holy in Deja Earley’s To the Mormon Newlyweds Who Thought the Bellybutton was Somehow Involved.

“The Perfect Union of Man and Woman”: Reclamation and Collaboration in Joseph Smith’s Theology Making

Givens argues that one of the things that Joseph Smith was trying to restore was teachings taught to Adam and Eve, in particular men and women working together. Givens also highlighted the existence of Heavenly…

This-Worldly and Other-Worldly Sex: A Response

Three Philosophies of Sex, Plus One

Sacred or Secret? A Parent’s Handbook for Sexuality Guidance of their Children by Ernest Eberhard, Jr.

Sacred or Secret? A Parent’s Handbook for Sexuality Guidance of their Children by Ernest Eberhard, Jr.

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After a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology: A Ten-Year Retrospective

Ten years ago, my article “Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology” was published in Dialogue.[1] I did not know what to expect when it made its way into the world, but it ended up being a…

Queer Bodies, Queer Technologies, and Queer Policies

Though there is a well-established conversation on how reproductive technologies and policies influence cisgender, heterosexual women’s bodies within Mormonism, there is a less established conversation on how reproductive technologies and policies are affecting LGBTQ+ Saints.[1]…

Hug a Queer Latter-day Saint

Blaire Ostler has written a number of pieces, from personal essays, poetry, to articles, that are worth noting. Her article, “Queer Polygamy,” is an innovating mashup that looks beyond monogamy as the only authorizing type…

Review: A Private Revelation William Victor Smith. Textual Studies of the Doctrine and Covenants: The Plural Marriage Revelation

Review: Revealing the Holy in Deja Earley’s To the Mormon Newlyweds Who Thought the Bellybutton was Somehow Involved.

“The Perfect Union of Man and Woman”: Reclamation and Collaboration in Joseph Smith’s Theology Making

Givens argues that one of the things that Joseph Smith was trying to restore was teachings taught to Adam and Eve, in particular men and women working together. Givens also highlighted the existence of Heavenly…

This-Worldly and Other-Worldly Sex: A Response

Three Philosophies of Sex, Plus One

Sacred or Secret? A Parent’s Handbook for Sexuality Guidance of their Children by Ernest Eberhard, Jr.

Sacred or Secret? A Parent’s Handbook for Sexuality Guidance of their Children by Ernest Eberhard, Jr.

On Sexuality

Sex Education Materials for Latter-day Saints

Mormon Elders’ Wafers: Images on Mormon Virility in Patent Medicine Ads

Shall the Youth of Zion Falter? Mormon Youth and Sex: A Two-City Comparison

Mormon Sex Standards on College Campuses, or Deal Us Out of the Sexual Revolution!

Mormon Sexuality in Cross-cultural Perspective

Needed: An LDS Philosophy of Sex

Mormon Sexuality and American Culture

Birth Control Among the Mormons: Introduction to an Insistent Question

The extensive national attention had a demonstrable impact in Utah. In 1876 the territory’s first anti-abortion law was enacted, carrying a penalty of two to ten years for performing an abortion; a woman convicted of…

Polygamous Eyes: A Note on Mormon Physiognomy

Polygamous Eyes: A Note on Mormon Physiognomy

Intersexes in Humans: An Unexplored Issue in LDS Traditional Beliefs

Duane laid out the problem clearly—we can’t say that sex is binary by divine design when it is not binary in nature.

Mormon Medical Ethical Guidelines

Of all medical ethical guidelines published by the Church, those relating to abortion are the most emphatically stated. Offenders, be they doctor, patient, or abettor, are subject to excommunication.

An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias—the Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community

Three Communities — Two Views: Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century

Sin and Sexuality: Psychobiology and the Development of Homosexuality

Stout’s article is a reminder just how important psychology and psychologists were for mediating these early debates. It really was groundbreaking in LDS print media.

Bearing Out Crosses Gracefully: Sex and the Single Mormon

“And They Shall Be One Flesh”: Sexuality and Contemporary Mormonism

Sexual Hegemony and Mormon Women: Seeing Ourselves in the Bambara Mirror

Finding Our Voices: Paperdolls: Healing from Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhoods by April Daniels and Carol Scott

A New Kind of Abuse: The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse

You Are Not Alone: A Plea for Understanding the Homosexual Condition

He points to Jan Stout’s article among other influential pieces that were beginning to soften LDS attitudes and change practices in the early 90s.

The Burden of Proof: Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-sex Orientation

Can You Change?: Born That Way? A True Story of Overcoming Same-Sex Attraction

Near-Sex Experiences (Confessions of a Mormon Girl)

Youth, Sex, and Coercion: The Neglect of Sexual Abuse Factors in LDS Data and Policy on Premarital Sex

The Logical Next Step: Affirming Same-Sex Relationships

He notes the inner conflict that gay LDS members faced, having to choose between their desires to have a relaitonship and their desires to be in the church.

Northing by Musket and Sextant

Sex and Prophetic Power: A Comparison of John Humphrey Noyes with Joseph Smith, Jr.

“One Flesh”: A Historical Overview of Latter-day Saint Sexuality and Psychology

Gay and Lesbian Mormons: Interviews.

Hugo Oliaz intervews two important figures in LDS LGBTQ organzing, a former diretor of Affirmation and the founder of Gay LDS Youth, a group that briefly flourished in the early 2000s. A great resource for…

Preaching the Gospel of Church and Sex: Mormon Women’s Fiction in the Young Woman’s Journal, 1889-1910

Sexual Morality Revisited

“Who Shall Sing If Not the Children?” Primary Songbook 1880-1989

Ecclesiastical Polity and the Challenge of Homosexuality: Two Cases of Divergence within the Mormon Tradition

This article compares the Community of Christ to the LDS church. In the early 2000s, the Community of Christ began to publicly reassess its policies on ordination and acceptance of homosexuality and opened the issue…

Embodied Mormonism: Performance, Vodou, and the LDS Faith in Haiti

Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Staying In

In Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.

Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Thoughts of a Therapist

In Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.

Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Homosexual Attraction and LDS Marriage Decisions

In Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.

Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Getting Out

In Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.

Between Suicide and Celibacy: In Quiet Desperation: Understanding the Challenge of Same-Gender Attraction by Fred and Marilyn Matis and Ty Mansfield

A Case for Same-Sex Marriage: Reply to Randolph Muhlestein

These articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if same-sex marriage were an option.

The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage

These articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if same-sex marriage were an option.

Wives and Other Women: Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Lives of John Q. Cannon, Frank J. Cannon, and Abraham H. Cannon

Review: Encouraging Heterosexuality: Helping Children Develop a Traditional Sexual Orientation

Sex Talk Sunday

Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology

From Editor Taylor Petrey: “Toward a Post-heterosexual Mormon Theology”  was actually the first major article I ever published. I did not know what to expect, but it ended up being a widely discussed piece, accessed…

Same-Sex Attraction

“As Our Two Faiths Have Worked Together”—Catholicism and Mormonism on Human Life Ethics and Same-Sex Marriage

Wilfred Decoo writes in 2013 ““As Our Two Faiths Have Worked Together”— Catholicism and Mormonism on Human Life Ethics and Same-Sex Marriage.” He expains, “I analyze a number of factors that could ease the way…

After a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology: A Ten-Year Retrospective

Ten years ago, my article “Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology” was published in Dialogue.[1] I did not know what to expect when it made its way into the world, but it ended up being a…

Queer Bodies, Queer Technologies, and Queer Policies

Though there is a well-established conversation on how reproductive technologies and policies influence cisgender, heterosexual women’s bodies within Mormonism, there is a less established conversation on how reproductive technologies and policies are affecting LGBTQ+ Saints.[1]…

Hug a Queer Latter-day Saint

Blaire Ostler has written a number of pieces, from personal essays, poetry, to articles, that are worth noting. Her article, “Queer Polygamy,” is an innovating mashup that looks beyond monogamy as the only authorizing type…

Review: A Private Revelation William Victor Smith. Textual Studies of the Doctrine and Covenants: The Plural Marriage Revelation

Review: Revealing the Holy in Deja Earley’s To the Mormon Newlyweds Who Thought the Bellybutton was Somehow Involved.

“The Perfect Union of Man and Woman”: Reclamation and Collaboration in Joseph Smith’s Theology Making

Givens argues that one of the things that Joseph Smith was trying to restore was teachings taught to Adam and Eve, in particular men and women working together. Givens also highlighted the existence of Heavenly…

This-Worldly and Other-Worldly Sex: A Response

Three Philosophies of Sex, Plus One

Sacred or Secret? A Parent’s Handbook for Sexuality Guidance of their Children by Ernest Eberhard, Jr.

Sacred or Secret? A Parent’s Handbook for Sexuality Guidance of their Children by Ernest Eberhard, Jr.

On Sexuality

Sex Education Materials for Latter-day Saints

Mormon Elders’ Wafers: Images on Mormon Virility in Patent Medicine Ads

Shall the Youth of Zion Falter? Mormon Youth and Sex: A Two-City Comparison

Mormon Sex Standards on College Campuses, or Deal Us Out of the Sexual Revolution!

Mormon Sexuality in Cross-cultural Perspective

Needed: An LDS Philosophy of Sex

Mormon Sexuality and American Culture

Birth Control Among the Mormons: Introduction to an Insistent Question

The extensive national attention had a demonstrable impact in Utah. In 1876 the territory’s first anti-abortion law was enacted, carrying a penalty of two to ten years for performing an abortion; a woman convicted of…

Polygamous Eyes: A Note on Mormon Physiognomy

Polygamous Eyes: A Note on Mormon Physiognomy

Intersexes in Humans: An Unexplored Issue in LDS Traditional Beliefs

Duane laid out the problem clearly—we can’t say that sex is binary by divine design when it is not binary in nature.

Mormon Medical Ethical Guidelines

Of all medical ethical guidelines published by the Church, those relating to abortion are the most emphatically stated. Offenders, be they doctor, patient, or abettor, are subject to excommunication.

An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias—the Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community

Three Communities — Two Views: Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century

Sin and Sexuality: Psychobiology and the Development of Homosexuality

Stout’s article is a reminder just how important psychology and psychologists were for mediating these early debates. It really was groundbreaking in LDS print media.

Bearing Out Crosses Gracefully: Sex and the Single Mormon

“And They Shall Be One Flesh”: Sexuality and Contemporary Mormonism

Sexual Hegemony and Mormon Women: Seeing Ourselves in the Bambara Mirror

Finding Our Voices: Paperdolls: Healing from Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhoods by April Daniels and Carol Scott

A New Kind of Abuse: The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse

You Are Not Alone: A Plea for Understanding the Homosexual Condition

He points to Jan Stout’s article among other influential pieces that were beginning to soften LDS attitudes and change practices in the early 90s.

The Burden of Proof: Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-sex Orientation

Can You Change?: Born That Way? A True Story of Overcoming Same-Sex Attraction

Near-Sex Experiences (Confessions of a Mormon Girl)

Youth, Sex, and Coercion: The Neglect of Sexual Abuse Factors in LDS Data and Policy on Premarital Sex

The Logical Next Step: Affirming Same-Sex Relationships

He notes the inner conflict that gay LDS members faced, having to choose between their desires to have a relaitonship and their desires to be in the church.

Northing by Musket and Sextant

Sex and Prophetic Power: A Comparison of John Humphrey Noyes with Joseph Smith, Jr.

“One Flesh”: A Historical Overview of Latter-day Saint Sexuality and Psychology

Gay and Lesbian Mormons: Interviews.

Hugo Oliaz intervews two important figures in LDS LGBTQ organzing, a former diretor of Affirmation and the founder of Gay LDS Youth, a group that briefly flourished in the early 2000s. A great resource for…

Preaching the Gospel of Church and Sex: Mormon Women’s Fiction in the Young Woman’s Journal, 1889-1910

Sexual Morality Revisited

“Who Shall Sing If Not the Children?” Primary Songbook 1880-1989

Ecclesiastical Polity and the Challenge of Homosexuality: Two Cases of Divergence within the Mormon Tradition

This article compares the Community of Christ to the LDS church. In the early 2000s, the Community of Christ began to publicly reassess its policies on ordination and acceptance of homosexuality and opened the issue…

Embodied Mormonism: Performance, Vodou, and the LDS Faith in Haiti

Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Staying In

In Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.

Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Thoughts of a Therapist

In Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.

Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Homosexual Attraction and LDS Marriage Decisions

In Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.

Getting Out/Staying In: One Mormon/Gay Marriage: Getting Out

In Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix-orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long-time activist Ron Schow.

Between Suicide and Celibacy: In Quiet Desperation: Understanding the Challenge of Same-Gender Attraction by Fred and Marilyn Matis and Ty Mansfield

A Case for Same-Sex Marriage: Reply to Randolph Muhlestein

These articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if same-sex marriage were an option.

The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage

These articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if same-sex marriage were an option.

Wives and Other Women: Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Lives of John Q. Cannon, Frank J. Cannon, and Abraham H. Cannon

Review: Encouraging Heterosexuality: Helping Children Develop a Traditional Sexual Orientation

Sex Talk Sunday

Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology

From Editor Taylor Petrey: “Toward a Post-heterosexual Mormon Theology”  was actually the first major article I ever published. I did not know what to expect, but it ended up being a widely discussed piece, accessed…

Same-Sex Attraction

“As Our Two Faiths Have Worked Together”—Catholicism and Mormonism on Human Life Ethics and Same-Sex Marriage

Wilfred Decoo writes in 2013 ““As Our Two Faiths Have Worked Together”— Catholicism and Mormonism on Human Life Ethics and Same-Sex Marriage.” He expains, “I analyze a number of factors that could ease the way…