When 2009’s The God Virus eventually led Dr. Darrel Ray to start Secular Sexuality, Purity Culture™ was at the heart of the mission. Now in our third season as part of the Atheist Experience Network Dr. Ray returns to help us understand how we got here and how we can heal. This week we’re taking your calls and setting our sights on chewed up bubble gum and the lies that separated us from our sexuality, and we’re all out of bubble gum. Catch the episode below and be sure to check back here afterwards for some footNOTES!
Find Darrel and I’s ‘sex addiction survey’ results here.
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Betty Dodson, Women’s Guru of Self-Pleasure, Dies at 91 by Penelope Green for The New York Times
How the ‘extreme abstinence’ of the purity movement created a sense of shame in evangelical women by Julie Ingersoll for The Conversation
Their Generation Was Shamed by Purity Culture. Here’s What They’re Building in Its Place by Sandi Villarreal for Sojourners
How Evangelical Purity Culture Can Lead to a Lifetime of Sexual Shame by Stephanie Dubick for VICE
Josh Harris, fallen evangelical mega-pastor: “I excommunicated myself” by Mike Allen for AXIOS
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein
The FAQs: What You Should Know About Purity Culture by Joe Carter for The Gospel Coalition
7 Lies That Purity Culture Teaches Women by Natalie Collins for CBE International
