Reject False Sexual Dogmas Beyond Purity Culture

Liberals and conservatives disagree about many things, but perhaps no topic is more contentious than sex. That's why we were pleased to find an island of common ground in this ocean of disagreement: both sides adamantly reject "purity culture." Though not everyone agrees on exactly what this term means, the basic idea refers to a strand of thinking in Evangelical Christianity which holds that sexual sin is uniquely degrading and defining, that one can never become truly clean or whole after sexual transgression, and that women are sources of temptation who are responsible for managing men’s sexual desire.