Purity Culture

Books

Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski

The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti

Shameless by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Talking Back to Purity Culture by Rachel Joy 

You are Your Own by Jamie Lee Finch

Sex, God, and the Conservative Church - Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy by Tina Sellers

The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti 

Pure by Linda Kay Klein

Wayward: A Memoir of Spiritual Warfare and Sexual Purity by Alice Greczyn

#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing by Emily Joy Allison

Podcasts

How Purity Culture Impacts Men with Julia & Jeremiah from the Sexvangelicals

Send this Episode to Your Therapist

Send this Episode to Your Therapist, Part 2

Websites

Scarleteen

Tina Schermersellers

Exploring Purity Culture as Religious Trauma

Erica Smith

Linda Kay Klein

Sex Positive Families

Strongwilled Project

Articles

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