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Topic: Purity culture

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Purity culture inspired Georgia killings

Ashlie D. Stevens
Framing Britney Spears (FX)

Britney doc bares our complicit misogyny

Ashlie D. Stevens
"Cuties" (Netflix)

Pornification and purity in "Cuties"

Bernadette Barton
President of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Jr., delivers a speech during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Purity culture fosters predator behavior

Ashlie D. Stevens
"I Kissed Dating Goodbye" by Joshua Harris (Multnomah Books)

What is a Joshua Harris apology worth?

Ashlie D. Stevens
Queer Eye Season 4 (Christopher Smith/Netflix)

Queer Eye for a purity culture survivor

Ashlie D. Stevens
A pro-life supporter holds a crucifix during a demonstration outside the Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center on May 31, 2019 in St Louis, Missouri. (Getty/Michael Thomas)

Protect the sacred lives of women

Amanda Miska
"Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free" by Linda Kay Klein (Touchstone/Jami Saunders Photography)

The evangelical purity trap for women

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Sex in the cornfields

Dan Rousseau
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Purity culture sex-shame blues

Kelsey L. Munger
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Sex in the cornfields

Dan Rousseau
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When "faith" enables abuse

Jenny Kutner
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I'm saving myself for God

Donna Freitas
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