If you grew up in the “Purity Culture,” there is work to be UN-done. Teens growing up in this powerful subculture of the church were taught about sex through deep shame and tight restrictions.
Words like Clean and Dirty reduced sexuality as something to say “no” to, but, there is more. Let’s bust through some of the myths purity culture taught, while trying to catch a glimpse of the much wider vision God has for us as women.
Let’s move away from being scared of our design, desires and body in order to embrace our sexuality for what it is; Sacred By Design.
(In each episode, we’ll be incorporating a Spiritual Practice. In this episode, we’ll be naming some ways Purity Culture may have hurt us mind, heart, and body; so we’ll be doing a “Body scan.” Please join us.)
Highlights:
How often did we have that modeled for us; contempt towards others and shame for ourselves? That’s hefty. And it’s bound up in fear and shame, it misses out on the love and beauty and honor that’s intrinsic to how we are as women, to how we’re made.
What if it was a virtue that we grow in, that we cultivate with God’s help. Not just a marker or a status, but something that’s continuing. That’s a big shift and one that I continue to try to come back to.
“Chastity is a free, joyful, wholehearted, and creative giving and receiving of love – in the way that best suits the place we find ourselves (married, single, celibate, dating, engaged, elderly, prepubescent, adolescent, same-sex attracted, sick, disabled, divorced, widowed, etc.” - Father Derek Sakowski
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