Rescuing Sex and Raising Girls: Sheila Gregoire
A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar
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The Problem With Purity Culture
The idea that sex is meant for marriage has been kind of standard in Christianity for quite a while. What purity culture brought to us was the idea that your faith is determined by your virginity and by your adherence to those rules. And we really messed that up because we made people do this all or nothing thinking so we taught girls to protect their bodies but not themselves. So once their virginity is gone there's no point in saying they don't have reason to say no to him. The ethic is chastity which is just simply treating others with dignity and respect and putting sex in its proper place. That's something that you can choose every day no matter what you did yesterday.
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