1/7/2023 0 Comments Purity culture![]() According to sex therapist Linda Kay Klein, who has first-hand experience growing up within purity culture, children and young adults who receive purity teachings are directed to form a commitment to God by abstaining from sex and remaining sexually pure until marriage. ![]() Purity culture exists prominently today in white evangelical Christian, Mormon, and Southern Baptist communities. Evangelical Christians of the 1960’s free love movement started having children of their own and believed that many of society’s problems such as the AIDS epidemic and rise of teen pregnancies was due to loose morals and sexual sins such as having sex outside of marriage. The origin of purity culture, or the faith based purity culture movement, traces back to the 1990s. While purity culture mostly pertains to rules and regulations placed on women’s sexuality, ultimately, everyone, including men, can suffer in different ways under restrictive, shaming, and judgmental views of sex and purity. One of those often-damaging elements is purity culture and the role it plays on sexuality and sexual identity. ![]() Although discussions about religion deserve sensitivity and open-mindedness, there are some problematic elements that are too harmful to ignore, such as purity culture trauma. There are some topics that people tend to tread lightly around.
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