Episode 14: Purity Culture & Trauma, Healthy Sex Education, Sex Positivity, and Exvangelicalism with Blair from @talkpuritytome

In this episode, Blair from @talkpuritytome and I... explain what purity culture is and what the relatively new term “exvangelical” means discuss how the absence of sex education fostered an environment for the harmful practices and beliefs of purity culture to spread reveal how purity culture was the method by which evangelical, fundamentalist Christianity wanted to control its members and those member’s sex lives describe the sexual abuse that was and is purity culture share how the end result of purity culture was deep shame, misinformation, guilt, and trauma. call out the abuse of purity culture discuss how people who are now in their mid-20s to mid-40s are the generation most devastated by purity culture discuss resources for informed sex education and healing the trauma of purity culture discuss the deconstruction of evangelical Christianity expose the roots of purity culture and evangelicalism (hint: fear is a big one) discuss the homophobic, monogamy-only paradigm of evangelicalism and how it manipulates followers and keeps them stuck talk about how the generation who was raised in purity culture is now choosing differently as parents themselves discuss why sex and religion need to be disconnected completely expose the utter lack of boundaries in evangelicalism and why establishing boundaries is a big piece of the healing puzzle Subscribe! Follow @iamlindseylockett Support the show Join the Trauma Healers Circle