“Is someone following us? Are people from the church watching me right now? If I buy this wine, am I going to be reported the next day? If they see my car at Johnnie’s house too late, am I going to lose my job?” There is this idea that you’re accountable to everybody for your sexual behavior, for your dating behavior, for everything, especially as a woman. If you were not telling something, it was because you had sin in your life. You don’t own anything, even your thoughts, and it matters more how the culture and the community thinks about your thought than what the thought itself is.
