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Linda Kay Klein
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Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
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2018
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9 editions
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“The purity message is not about sex. Rather, it is about us: who we are, who we are expected to be, and who it is said we will become if we fail to meet those expectations.
This is the language of shame.”
― Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
This is the language of shame.”
― Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
“Religious Trauma Syndrome (RTS), defined as “the condition experienced by people who are struggling with leaving an authoritarian, dogmatic religion and coping with the damage of indoctrination,”
― Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
― Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
“The cornerstone of the purity myth is the expectation that girls and women, in particular, will be utterly and absolutely nonsexual until the day they marry a man, at which point they will naturally and easily become his sexual satisfier, ensuring the couple will have children and never divorce: one man, one woman, in marriage, forever.
For this formula to work, my girlfriends and I knew we had to follow a slew of rules. Unfortunately, none of us knew what they were.”
― Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
For this formula to work, my girlfriends and I knew we had to follow a slew of rules. Unfortunately, none of us knew what they were.”
― Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
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