In recent weeks, Jill Duggar has celebrated sister Jinger’s book, noting that they are both more independent than they once were.
For Jill, being “free” from the cult that raised her means letting her kids go to school. It means nose piercing.
And it also means tapping into human sexuality in ways that are normal in mainstream culture, but curse In the creed of his family.
That’s how Jill was able to get straight-up NSFW in this sensual 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 Story (and Reel, Instagram’s obnoxious video service that’s trying to be TikTok), Jill has been posting links.
Basically, it is an app to help Christian, married couples. with what? Along with connecting romantically and improving their sex life.
It may be niche, but it’s not just for cult survivors. Many young, married evangelicals can be very uncomfortable with sex.
This means there can be physical discomfort while having sex. It can also mean discussing sex. When a topic is taboo, when you grow up believing that your own body is shameful, it doesn’t magically go away when you get married.
Toxic purity culture does permanent damage. But some married people want to address some of them, without learning from porn or more traditional sex-related resources.
According to Intimately Us, the app is intended to help married Christians “spice things up in a safe and wholesome way.”
So no, it’s not going to help them invite a third lover over for a night of fun. And it’s not going to recommend anything hardcore. In fact, plenty of softcore marital fun is right outside the window, too.
But the goal is to help people who had little or no practice before marriage to improve their sex lives. One might think of this as remedial sex education, but we’re sure they would never brand themselves as such.
But just because Intimate Us believes that “the best sex is within 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 has been posting (sponsored) promotions for the app, sharing how she and Derrick have been using it for a while now.
Jill wrote, “I love the Intimately Us app and Derrick and I have been using it for a few years now.”
She added: “I love that it’s clean and you can play games and other things, but they also have other expert advice.”
According to Jill, it helps to “spice up your marriage without all the yuck” in what she refers to as an “exciting bedroom game.”
Some cheeky posts on social media are mocking the idea, starting with the fact that Jill is sharing sponsored posts.
“Ah yes because when I think of a spicy intimate married couple the first thing that goes to my mind is Jill Dillard. Or any Duggars,” one Redditor sarcastically quipped.
Another declared: “Any Duggar promoting anything related to ‘marriage intimacy’ sweeps me off my feet, and my hoo-hoo recoils in horror!”
Others noted that they think it would be “weird” rather than hot to use the app to find out about their sex life.
Perhaps it’s worth considering that most of us can’t fully imagine the internalized shame and enduring repression that Jill must have experienced growing up.
She was raised to make herself an object for her husband, for sex and for reproduction. The idea that he can have his own desires, and that’s perfectly fine, is still very new to him.