John, Jenn, and special guest Aimee Heffernan check in with Natasha Helfer on the one-year anniversary of her disciplinary council. She was excommunicated from the LDS Church largely in response to her work as a licensed sex therapist with 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, Salt Lake Tribune, January 30, 2015
- “Elder Oaks…stop it!” Natasha’s response to Dallin H. Oaks on LGBT issues
- “Come Follow Me,” Russell M. Nelson, General Conference, April 2019, also known as the “Sad Heaven” talk
- “LDS Church has great power, which it has wielded irresponsibly,” A letter to the prophet from a mental health practitioner, Salt Lake Tribune, April 21, 2019
- “Your Divine and Eternal Destiny,” Dale G. Renlund addressing the Women’s Session of General Conference, April 2022
- Sonia Johnson and Kate Kelly on Mormon Land podcast
- Jennifer Finlayson-Fife discusses Natasha’s excommunication on Mormon Land
- Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism by Maxine Hanks
- “Teaching Adolescents from Twelve to Eighteen Years,” A Parent’s Guide, Ch 5
- Year of Polygamy with Lindsay Hansen Park
- Natasha’s new project and website
- Symmetry Solutions
- Mormon Mental Health Association
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