Erica Smith - Sex After Purity Culture

Erica Smith - Sex After Purity CultureErica Smith is an award-winning sexuality educator and consultant with over 20 years of experience. She has provided comprehensive sex education and advocacy to young women and LGBTQ+ youth in Philadelphia’s juvenile justice system, worked in abortion care, and supported HIV+ and transgender adolescents and their families.Erica developed the Purity Culture Dropout™️ Program to provide the sex education we missed growing up in purity culture - a program that is accurate, queer inclusive, trauma informed, compassionate, and comprehensive.On today’s episode, Erica shares some of the experiences that helped her see the need for programs tailored to those recovering from Christianity and purity culture indoctrination.Erica was one of our speakers in 2022 at the Shameless Sexuality: Life After Purity Culture conference – for which recordings are now available at 50% off!For more from Erica, join us at CORT2023 online October 20-22. Get your tickets here: https://www.religioustraumaconference.org/FIND ERICAwww.purityculturedropout.comhttps://www.ericasmitheac.com/ RESOURCES MENTIONEDRecordings from the Shameless Sexuality: Life After Purity Culture conference now 50% off here https://www.shamelesssexuality.org/ with discount code SPECIAL50Many sex-themed books are mentioned in the second half of this episode.Support this podcast on Patreon (starting as low as $2/month) and get access to bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/janiceselbie Thanks to my latest Patrons: Lois, SatX, Carol, CMM, RL, & Kevin D!Subscribe to the audio-only version here: https://www.divorcing-religion.com/religious-trauma-podcastGet your free consultation with Janice, book 1:1 sessions, or sign up for the Divorcing Religion Workshop here: https://www.divorcing-religion.com/Get your recordings from the Shameless Sexuality: Life After Purity Culture conference here: https://www.shamelesssexuality.org/Follow Janice and the Conference on Religious Trauma on Social Media: Mastodon: @[email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/divorcereligionTwitter: https://twitter.com/Wise_counsellorTwitter: https://twitter.com/ComeToCORTFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DivorcingReligionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/wisecounsellor/The Divorcing Religion Podcast is for entertainment purposes only. If you need help with your mental health, please consult a qualified, secular, mental health clinician.Support the show