Tag: purity culture
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Your Body Is Not a Ledger
“We want a lady in the streets, but a freak in the bed.” I couldn’t tell you how many times I rapped those lines along with Ludacris on the song “Yeah” by Usher. It was a huge hit in the 2000s, and I, like so many others, danced and sang along in the club, at…
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How to Clean Your Vulva — and Why You Were Taught to Fear It
You were taught your body was dirty and kept ready for a man. Here’s who taught you that, why it isn’t true, and how to reclaim it as your own.
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My Issues with Purity Culture!
Growing up in a religious environment, I was always around talk of staying ‘pure’ until marriage. What this meant was that I was not to involve in sex until I got married – now if you have been a teenager before, you know how difficult this is when the hormones kick in – lol. Anyway,…
