Show notes
In this episode, Blair from @talkpuritytome and I...
- explain what purity culture is and what the relatively new term “exvangelical” means
- discuss how the absence of sex education fostered an environment for the harmful practices and beliefs of purity culture to spread
- reveal how purity culture was the method by which evangelical, fundamentalist Christianity wanted to control its members and those member’s sex lives
- describe the sexual abuse that was and is purity culture
- share how the end result of purity culture was deep shame, misinformation, guilt, and trauma.
- call out the abuse of purity culture
- discuss how people who are now in their mid-20s to mid-40s are the generation most devastated by purity culture
- discuss resources for informed sex education and healing the trauma of purity culture
- discuss the deconstruction of evangelical Christianity
- expose the roots of purity culture and evangelicalism (hint: fear is a big one)
- discuss the homophobic, monogamy-only paradigm of evangelicalism and how it manipulates followers and keeps them stuck
- talk about how the generation who was raised in purity culture is now choosing differently as parents themselves
- discuss why sex and religion need to be disconnected completely
- expose the utter lack of boundaries in evangelicalism and why establishing boundaries is a big piece of the healing puzzle