However, purity culture has a number of almost “secular” reasons to exist. One of these is that if you remain pure before marriage, you won’t experience pain and heartbreak. (Because apparently, you can only have your heart broken if you’ve had sex with a person.)
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“A healthy acceptance of our bodies is so desperately needed. Our bodies are our selves, in such a fundamental and core way.”
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“As a homeschooling mom of 20+ years, I fell into the modesty/purity hype and created all sorts of rules for my kids…When I stopped obsessing about my boys walking past Victoria’s Secret at the mall and turning the television channel when we saw a young lady wearing a bikini on television, amazingly, my children stopped obsessing.”
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“Here’s a big secret: women can be visual, too. I’m more visually oriented than Luke. And there are a lot of guys objectively more attractive (and by that I mean, with really ripped abs) than him. It’s okay. I still find him breathtakingly handsome and I love him more than anybody.”
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“When I confided in a male friend about my self-injury, my parents immediately found out thanks to heavily monitored spyware on my computer…But my parents saw my issues as rebellion against their authority that should be broken.”
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On Valentine’s Day 2007, The Rebelution unveiled the Modesty Survey. Girls submitted questions, and guys responded. As a moderator of the Rebelution forum, I was really excited about the project. Six years later, if you ask me what I think of the Survey, I’ll tell you I wish the project didn’t exist.”
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“In 2005, 2006, and 2007 I was a blogger, an NCFCA-er, a Rebelution moderator, a Regenerate Our Culture board member, a Student Project campaigner, and a TeenPact Alumni…I contributed to the amount of hurt I and many others who grew up in this radical, evangelical, conservative christian subculture endured.”
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