**CW/TW: mention of sexual assault and trauma (although we don’t go into detail)

Purity culture: a beyond-outdated system that reduces us to objects and promotes misogyny, abuse, victim blaming, homophobia, creepy/distorted gender roles, and a plethora of other unpleasantries.

On today’s episode, Carolyn and Lena discuss what it was like to be steeped in this bizarre Evangelical construct throughout childhood and young adulthood. We chat about the difficulty of undoing these systems that still cause residual harm to this day.