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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
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About the Christian right in the United States and how the push for abstinence only education is damaging…more

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which is making me throw up a little in my mouth every time I think about it. At some point we have to start calling some aspects of religion what they are, just plain abuse.
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