Book Review: Every Woman's Battle

Every Woman's Battle: Discovering God's Plan for Sexual and Emotional Fulfillment by Shannon Ethridge is for women who plan to marry, are engaged or married... heterosexually, of course (this is a Christian book after all).

This book assumes that all women are at risk of having an extramarital affair and that, basically, it is only a matter of time before... oops, those panties just took themselves off and, well, you know the rest. I've never before heard of a concept of "sexual integrity" but apparently this is a big issue. Now why women who are not even married need to be thinking about how to prevent having an affair, I don't know. Because isn't the Christian teaching to not even have a sexual thought until the wedding night? So I'm confused about why there would even be any talk about extramarital affairs to women who are not even engaged.

I do agree with having a relationship with Jesus before being able to have a strong relationship with any person. That I wholly understand.

As far as the rest of the book? As a woman who has been married almost 10 years, dated that same man for 4 years before marriage, I did not find anything in the book that represented anything that I've ever gone through. I'm human, I've procreated and have two beautiful children to show for it... and I just have not gone through all these sexuality struggles that apparently all Christian women do.

Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book from Multnomah in exchange for my review. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinion here is my own.