The Purity Culture Movement

The dances were originally conceived in 19 98 by a california couple as a way of celebrating god's design in life's little growth spurts. At the time, many evangelicals were reacting to the negative effects of sex outside of marriage. An attempted to once again ground sexuality in bib ethics. A study in two thousand nine found that the sexual behavior ens who had taken a purity pledge does not differ from that of closely matched non pledges five years after the pledge.