From childhood to now, purity culture has long dictated that women serve as the gatekeepers of sexual activity and can set ...

For many people, changing their religious orientation also means shifting their relationship with sexuality. Purity culture has had an enormous impact on Evangelical Christians in the United States, ...

You can see it in YouTube video essays, TikTok comments and social media trends. Purity culture is back. Waves of tradwife influencers like Nara Smith and Ballerina Farm, rising numbers of religious ...

(RNS) — Harris seems to recognize that his books gave women a wrong view about our sexuality and our relationships but fails to mention the damage his toxic teachings did to our faith. (RNS) — The ...

Helena* was a teenager experiencing financial hardship when her friend's father invited her to move in with their family. Since this made it possible for her to seek a better job, she accepted. He ...

In this way, Kirk represents the reanimation of purity culture’s idealized white femininity, serving as both symbol and spokesperson for a political movement that increasingly relies on this gendered ...