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“In books, movies, and just about everywhere else, girls get the message that the more selflessly and painfully a woman suffers, the more we love her, but no where is this message quite so clear as it is in religion.”

Book:Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

Source: Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

“[T]he church had embedded the notion that sex was shameful so deeply into her brain that she couldn't shake it now that she was married and it was suddenly supposed to be okay.”

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Book:Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

Source: Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

“This illustration is picture-perfect purity culture. In short, women's sexuality must be just right, so that men can spiritually thrive.”

Sex Purity Church Culture

Book:Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

Source: Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

“But when the purity and community equations proved to be bad math, everything 'just crumbled.' How could she believe anything evangelicalism taught her if the one thing they said was most important - remain pure before marriage and you will have a blissful sexual life after marriage and be supported by the larger community - wasn't true? "To me, it meant there was no God," Muriel said[.]”

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Author:Linda Kay Klein