Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free - Linda Kay Klein Audiobook
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Purity Culture
Shame
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From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity’s purity culture has had on a generation of young women - in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir.
In the 1990s, a “purity industry” emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a dangerous message: girls are potential sexual “stumbling blocks” for boys and men, and any expression of a girl’s sexuality could reflect the corruption of her character. This message traumatized many girls - resulting in anxiety, fear, and experiences that mimicked the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder - and trapped them in a cycle of shame.
This is the sex education Linda Kay Klein grew up with.
Fearing being marked a Jezebel, Klein broke up with her high school boyfriend because she thought God told her to, and took pregnancy tests though she was a virgin, terrified that any sexual activity would be punished with an out-of-wedlock pregnancy. When the youth pastor of her church was convicted of sexual enticement of a 12-year-old girl, Klein began to question the purity-based sexual ethic. She contacted young women she knew, asking if they were coping with the same shame-induced issues she was. These intimate conversations developed into a 12-year quest that took her across the country and into the lives of women raised in similar religious communities - a journey that facilitated her own healing and led her to churches that are seeking a new way to reconcile sexuality and spirituality.
Sexual shame is by no means confined to evangelical culture; Pure is a powerful wake-up call about our society’s subjugation of women.
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This post has 6 comments
September 13th, 2018
Yup. Go out there and sleep around, get pregnant, and that will work for you.
September 13th, 2018
The irony is that it was easy to tell which kids in college were the ones from the strict upbringing backgrounds. They were the ones who were doing the most “exploring” once they got free of it.
Hypocrisy is alive and well. Just look at all those evangelicals getting people to send them money so they can have fancy cars, houses, and planes. Look at the celibate priests who molest children.
September 13th, 2018
If there is no God, and religion is man-made, than that would imply that hypocrisy is simply a part of human nature, and thus it can be found anywhere. Christians, on the other hand, would say that the Bible claims it’s systematic of the human predicament, as in original sin.
Either way, I’ve known plenty of atheists, secular humanists, and anti-religious zealots, who play the hypocrite. It doesn’t require much energy or intelligence to go with the flow.
Klein “took pregnancy tests though she was a virgin…” Sounds like she was lacking one of the above. I wouldn’t be surprised if I discovered occasions of hypocrisy present right here in Klein’s memoir.
I’m not suggesting that Klein’s experience isn’t worth noting. I know that there are a few crazy churches out there. But, if commitment to God and active church participation can help a man take responsibility for his actions, or help protect a family from being just another statistic, then why throw the baby out with the bath water? Perhaps its because now she would consider it a blob of tissue instead of a person.
September 13th, 2018
“symptomatic”
September 15th, 2018
I agree there is enough hypocrisy to go around. But when people base their life on myth and superstition, ie. religion, and brainwash their children in the same, they don’t hold the moral high ground.
We should base our lives on Facts, Logic and Evidence!
April 22nd, 2020
A girl named (((Klein))) is raised Christian during the godless 90s and decides she hates the wypipo that taught her family values.
Imagine my shock…
Well, two decades later we live in the world of slut marches and tranny story time so I guess Miss Klein’s tribe has won (temporarily, I pray).
…As if anyone of us Gen Xers needed religion to be afraid of the AIDS epidemic we lived through in the last decade of the twentieth century.
Typical!
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