“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” follows a group of eight married Mormon women in their 20s and early 30s living in Utah. Nowak and Hannah Jaeger, both Southern California locals, noticed their friends talking about “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” nonstop, prompting them to discuss it on their lifestyle podcast BusyBabes. Jessi Ngatikaura, Jennifer Affleck, Mayci Neeley, Taylor Frankie Paul, Mikayla Matthews, Layla Taylor and Demi Engemann in "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives." Fred Hayes/DisneyAs the Mormon wives began to gain an audience on TikTok in 2022, one of the mothers Taylor Frankie Paul revealed she and other Mormon couples had been taking part in “soft-swinging” – or consensually sharing partners. But, in many ways, the show embraces the Mormon wives’ progressive desires – from talking about their sex lives to getting divorces – and pushes back on the conservatism within their own community.

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Persons: Sydney Nowak, ” –, “, ” Nowak, ”, It’s, Nowak, Hannah Jaeger, Gen Z, millennials, Nielsen, ’ ” Nowak, Kathy M, Newman, ” Newman, Jessi Ngatikaura, Jennifer Affleck, Mayci Neeley, Taylor Frankie Paul, Mikayla Matthews, Layla Taylor, Demi Engemann, Fred Hayes, Lisa Filippilli, ” Georgia Berger, Nara Smith, Hannah Neeleman, Joel Penney doesn’t, we’re, ’ ” Penney, ” Penney Organizations: CNN, Nielsen, Hulu, Carnegie Mellon University, Disney, Management, Collider, Times, Montclair State University Locations: Las Vegas, Utah, Southern California