purity culture

Amanda McCracken thought she’d been unlucky in love. Instead she’d been faithful to the idea of longing itself.

I grew up in evangelical purity culture. Melissa Febos’s decision to abstain from sex was quite different.

Anna Rollins’s memoir examines purity culture, disordered eating, and the cost of being a good Christian girl.

They’re selling marriage as a promise and a return on investment. It’s both misguided and genuinely appealing.