Episode Details

John John, Jenn, and special guest Aimee Heffernan as we check in with Natasha Helfer on the one year anniversary of her excommunication from the Mormon church, largely in response to her work as a licensed sex therapist to Mormons and ex-Mormons.

Show Notes:

• Natasha Helfer's Pre-Excommunication reflections on Mormon Stories
• Live Vigil at Natasha's Excommunication
• Natasha's Post-Excommunication Debrief on Mormon Stories
• Ward-less: A Post-Mormon Field Guide podcast with Aimee Heffernan
• "My Official Stance on Masturbation," by Natasha Helfer, August 6, 2012
• "I Am Not Broken," Natasha Parker, Thrive 2019
• "To Young Men Only," Boyd K. Packer's 1976 General Conference talk, in which he uses an extended metaphor comparing male genitals to a "Little Factory" to discourage masturbation
• Natasha's first interview on Mormon Stories, in which she was still afraid to talk openly about masturbation
• Feminist Mormon Housewives
• Natasha interviews Jennifer Finlayson-Fife on Mormon Mental Health podcast
• American Association of Pediatrics' position that masturbation is normative childhood behavior
• The 1982 letter from the First Presidency, calling oral sex "an unnatural, impure, or unholy practice;" this position was later officially reversed, but is still widely believed among members
• "The Lord's Standard of Morality," by Tad R. Callister, Ensign, March 2014
• "Morality? We can do much better than this..." Natasha's response to Callister condemning masturbation as "self-abuse"
• Mormon Mental Health podcast
• "We can all be more civil on LGBT issues, Mormon leader says," by Peggy Fletcher-Stack,