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Teens and Designer Jeans: The Blaming and Shaming of Purity Culture

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The True Love Waits Pledge

A popular Christian chastity campaign is the popular True Love Waits model. Peter Bergen: The ceremony focuses on female obedience, and girls are dependent. He says in this strict biblical model for sexual fidelity, females are accountable to males. Bergen: When marriage does come, it's a man who gives away the bride.

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