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A scholar’s perspective after decades of research: “we’re talking about a whole network of politicized ideals that has used the bodies of adolescents to gain political power … Purity Culture has become rape culture.” This movement seems to be anything but what it appears to be. Evangelical leaders compelling adolescents to be sexually pure (Purity […]

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A scholar’s perspective after decades of research: “we’re talking about a whole network of politicized ideals that has used the bodies of adolescents to gain political power … Purity Culture has become rape culture.” This movement seems to be...

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