Christopher West Answers YOUR Questions About Sex, Dating & Gender

Is the Church's teaching on sex just a list of rules — or an invitation to something better? Christopher West, the world's foremost teacher of St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body, joins Chris Stefanick for a speed-round Q&A built entirely from questions submitted by Daily Anchor subscribers. Three minutes on the clock, no script, no easy questions.

In this episode: the difference between Thomistic and phenomenological approaches to morality (and why JP2 brought them together), real advice for parents on teen dating, how to reach a young man stuck in pornography, what a long-married couple should do when desire for intimacy isn't mutual anymore, why Christopher refuses to use the term "LGBTQ," and how the word "gender" itself points to the truth about the transgender debate.

Highlights

00:00 – Cold open: the most fun episode ever filmed
03:13 – Thomistic vs. phenomenological approaches, explained with a poison analogy
10:03 – Speed round begins: advice for teen dating and healthy "eros"
14:17 – How to talk to a young man caught in pornography ("there's a banquet")
16:59 – What a married couple should do when desire for intimacy isn't mutual
21:07 – Why Christopher West won't use the term "LGBTQ"
27:09 – The real meaning of "gender" and the Church's teaching on being transgender

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Chapters

• (00:00:00) - Christopher West
• (00:00:54) - The Catholic Sexpert
• (00:02:52) - John Paul II: The Theology of the Body
• (00:07:53) - Punishment for the Sexual Revolution
• (00:09:18) - Daily Inspiration
• (00:09:58) - Christopher St. John's Advice for Teen Dating
• (00:15:25) - Fast Food and the banquet
• (00:16:57) - The Need for Sexual Intimacy in the Marriage
• (00:20:32) - The LGBT Issues
• (00:22:11) - Archbishop Chaput on Sexuality
• (00:27:05) - The Problem with Gender Affirming Surgery
• (00:31:26) - Bradley on the Culture War
• (00:36:42) - Good News for the Battlefield
• (00:36:59) - Pray for Christopher West and His Family