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a member of the church was talking with the kids about how sex is powerful, like dynamite, and one of the kids—he’s a first year in high school—he raised his hand and said, ‘No, I don’t agree with that. Because that’s like saying sex is dangerous and bad.’ “And I said, ‘Well, what would you say then? What’s the metaphor you would use?’ “And he said: ‘I would use the sun.’ “I said, ‘Say more about that.’ “And he goes: ‘Well, if you spend too much time in the sun, you’re going to get burned. And if you get too close to it, you’re going to die. But yeah, if you don’t get any sun, you die too. ...more
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
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