â??This is so we can stay pure and abstain from sexual sin,â? he said as he awkwardly placed the purity ring onto my finger, and another one onto his. The ringâ??s engraving read, â??True Love Waits.â? I was 16. He was nearly 19. We were both virgins struggling to stay pure in an evangelical Christian community.
The Pentecostal church forbade any form of premarital sex. While leaders of the church didnâ??t specifically address oral, anal or masturbatory sex, its young congregants assumed it was all sin before marriage. Foreplay was an area rarely discussed. I asked one of my female mentors at the church about this one.
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