Summary: The cover of the March 2014 Ensign highlights an article, "The Lord’s Standard of Morality," by Elder Tad R. Callister that has been the subject of much Internet talk of late, with most voices recognizing the importance of the subject and good desires of the author and those who chose to publish it but expressing concern that some of its messaging might be more harmful than helpful for youth negotiating the important transition from childhood to adulthood, especially in regard to healthy sexuality. In this episode, two therapists who work closely with Latter-day Saints struggling with issues often related to negative ideas they picked up during their formative years, Natasha Helfer Parker and Jennifer Finlayson-Fife, join Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon for an illuminating dialogue about modesty and sexuality (especially assumptions and views about women) and how messages designed to protect women can instead increase the very devaluation and objectification of the women they seek to avoid. They also share ideas for healthy messaging that could comfortably fit in LDS Sunday and Young Women/Young Men curricula.
