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Mild at Heart: Love, Sex, and Masculinity After Purity Culture: Ep 2

Straight White American Jesus

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Sexuality Translates Into a Sense of Masculinity, Right?

Men are told that they are sexual savages who border on destructive behavior all the time. Yet men are also taught that they are supposed to be the leaders, the a, the authorities in church and home, in society. We have this very strange situation wherelike, in one breath, the man is like a sort of out of control animal who can't control his sexuality or his desire to destroy things,. On the other hand, he is supposed to being the leader at home, in church, in society, in culture, politics, the whole thing right? It's a very weird par paradox. And if you think about it, it really does sort of reveal the patriarchal part of evangelical

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