61: Purity Culture: FUN! Part 2 11.29.24

This is part 2 in our series on purity culture. If you listened to part 1, go back and listen to part 1 and then come back here!

Trigger Warning!
We’re talking about sexual trauma as a result of religious abuse and purity culture. If that sounds like too much, feel free to skip this episode. Take care of yourself, Dear Listener.

This week on Honestly, Dear Listener, we’re returning for the second and final part of our two-part series on purity culture. We’ll finally talk about Joshua Harris’ infamous book that shaped so many of our thoughts on purity, courting, and dating—I Kissed Dating Goodbye—and we’ll also touch on the slut shaming music we listened to. Finally, we’ll talk about how we dressed modestly and judged the other girls around us when they wore clothing we knew we couldn’t have gotten away with.

All this fun and MORE on this week’s episode of Honestly, Dear Listener!

References:

  • “I Don’t Want It” - song by DC Talk from the album Free at Last

  • “That Kind of Girl” - song by DC Talk from the album Free at Last

Check out our other episodes about spiritual deconstruction/fundamentalism:

TIMECODES:
0:00 - Intro
0:42 - Bad bitch baptism
2:36 - Reaction to last week’s part 1 episode
6:07 - Purity culture music
14:20 - Christians are obsessed with sex and who you’re going to marry
19:49 - Fundamentalist Christianity has formed the very structure of how we think
26:15 - Let’s talk about I Kissed Dating Goodbye!
33:00 - Carrie nearly gets kicked out of school for camping “in mixed company” 
35:31 - Patriarchy and purity culture are bad for women…AND men.
38:01 - Dressing modestly
47:31 - Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty
53:23 - How do we raise our children OUT of purity culture?