The intersection of purity culture and anti-Asian racism is familiar to many Asian American Christian women, who say there's long been a connection between the two among white, conservative Christians.
But recently, they say, there's been more public scrutiny of how purity culture disproportionately blames women of color after law enforcement officials said Robert Aaron Long, the man who has been charged with killing eight people, six of them Asian women, at three Atlanta-area spas in March, had a "sex addiction" and a "temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate."
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