In recent weeks, Jill Duggar has been celebrating her sister Jinger’s book, saying that she is freer than ever.
For Jill, being “free” from the cult that raised her meant allowing her children to go to school. It means having a nose piercing.
And it also means tapping into human sexuality in ways that are normalized in mainstream culture, however curse in her family cult.
That’s how Jill managed to get downright NSFW in this lewd post ahead of Valentine’s Day.
With Valentine’s Day less than two weeks away, Jill Duggar is promoting the Intimately Us app.
Taking to her Instagram Stories (and to Reel, the Instagram video service that’s trying to be TikTok), Jill posted a link.
Basically, it’s an app to help Christian, married couples. what do you use? By connecting romantically and improving your sex life.
This may be a niche, but it’s not just for cult survivors. Many married young evangelicals may not be comfortable with sex.
This can cause physical discomfort during sex. It can also mean discussing sex. When it’s a taboo topic, when you grow up believing that you’re shy, it doesn’t magically disappear when you get married.
A toxic purity culture causes lasting damage. But some married people want to deal with some of these things, without following through with learning from porn or traditional sex-related resources.
According to Intimately Us, the app aims to help married Christians “spice things up in a safe and healthy way.”
So no, it won’t help him to invite a third lover to have fun. And will not recommend anything hardcore. In fact, a lot of the fun of softcore’s marriage went right out the window, too.
But the goal is to help them improve their sex life. One could think of it as remedial sex education, but we’re sure they wouldn’t brand it as such.
But just because Intimately Us believes that “the best sex happens in marriage” doesn’t mean it has to be dull.
The app’s mission is to reinforce the idea that “sex should be creative and fun.”
So Jill posted (sponsored) a promotion for the app, showing how she and Derick had been using it for a while.
“I love the Intimately Us app, and Derick and I have been using it for a few years now,” Jill wrote.
He then added, “I like that it’s clean and you can play games and stuff, but they also have expert advice.”
According to Jill, it helps her “spice up your marriage without everyone” through what she calls “fun bedroom games.”
Some of the snarkier posts on social media poked fun at the idea, starting with the fact that Jill shared a sponsored post.
“Ah yes because when I think of a hot married couple, the first person that comes to my mind is Jill Dillard. Or maybe Duggar,” said the redditor sarcastically.
Another stated: “Any Duggar promoting ANYTHING related to ‘marital intimacy’ makes my legs close, and my hoo-hoo recoils in horror!”
Others noted that they felt they used the app to find out that their sex life would be “awkward” rather than hot.
It may be worth considering that most of us cannot imagine the internalized shame and constant oppression that Jill must have endured.
They are raised to make themselves objects for their husbands, for sex and reproduction. The idea that he could have his own desires, and be okay with it, was still new to him.