Christopher West Answers YOUR Questions About Sex, Dating & Gender

Christopher West Answers YOUR Questions About Sex, Dating & Gender

July 14, 2026 · 39 min

About this episode

Christopher West joins Chris Stefanick to answer questions about sex, dating, and gender from Daily Anchor subscribers.

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…

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