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Alice Greczyn: Sex, Shame, and the Harms of Purity Culture

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Are You Burning With Lust When You Can Just Marry?

The median age for marriage in this country is 30 that's freaking almost two full decades of wrestling with normal natural desire and inclinations. I feel like especially here in the states we still have abstinence only teachings and marriage is still delayed in most places until 18 without parental consent. We have this in between period of a few really hormonally intense years where kids naturally have the urge to explore themselves in their sexuality but are being horribly under informed about how to do so, she says. "I think if our culture could just be a lot less puritanical about it"

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