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Dominion and Shame: Purity Culture's War on the Sexual Self

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Sally Kohn: Purity culture endures in the memories, bodies, relationships of those who were raised within it. She says former purity culture adherents are grappling with its after-effects. The permeation of purity culture into church teachings and cultures can be seen in anxieties around male-female friendships, she says.Kohn: Sex ain't leisure, neither is it free. It's a wedding present and it's waiting for me.

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