Is God's Request to Wait for Marriage a Good Idea?

In purity culture, both young men and women are taught that sex before marriage is wrong. But it's teen aged girls who end up most affected clien fins. After you get married, like your metaphorical chastity belt unbuckles, the psychological effects don't stop there,. leading to mental and physical side effects similar to symptoms of post dramatic stress disorder. In two thousand testimonies from childhood friends involved in the purity movement, they found that they were all experiencing similar feelings of fear, shame and anxiety in relationship to war with each other. Based on our nightmares, panic attacks peranoia, one might think we had been at war with ourselves for years. And in fact, we went to war