Leaving church, learning love : experiences of queer women in purity culture
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"Evangelical Christian purity culture is a sexual ethic that emphasizes gender conformity, modest dress for girls and women, and the importance of maintaining “purity” or “virginity” until heterosexual marriage. Often taking the form of rules that must be followed, this sexual ethic has been taught extensively to children and adolescents since the early 1990’s, impacting both persons raised in Christian churches and those who were not, via mandatory abstinence-based sexual education in public schools. Academic research examining the impact of purity culture teachings on adults who were raised with this ideology is limited, especially research focusing on sexual and gender minorities who grew up within the strict heteronormative gender binary of purity culture. This study uses CQR (Consensual Qualitative Research) methodology to analyze twelve in-depth interviews with women who were raised within purity culture and currently identify as a sexual minority (bisexual, pansexual, lesbian, etc.)." -- first page
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