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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women | Jessica Valenti

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This book draws attention to the problems of abstinence only education and other REALLY CREEPY purity activities (the purity ball). This part lives up to the title and claimed point of the book: “How America‘s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women.” A better subtitle for this book would have been “How America‘s Inherent Sexism is Hurting Young Women.” I‘m a feminist. I have nothing against feminism or a book on feminism.
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GingerAntics I‘ve read many books on the subject and will probably read many more. My issue is that this is not the book I thought (or intended) to read. I‘ve read pretty much every argument about sexism, rape culture, and America from other sources. This book is about feminism, not the damage done to women by America‘s obsession with female virginity. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 5y

GingerAntics This is about social issues as opposed to “these are the problems women face in their relationships with men and in sexual relationships after surviving the abstinence only world view. #ThePurityMyth #JessicaValenti 5y

Branwen Wow. How disappointing! 5y

TheBookHippie Ugh 5y

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GingerAntics

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women | Jessica Valenti

Well, at least this t-shirt is being honest about this girl seeing herself as property. Score one for honesty...I guess.
#ThePurityMyth #JessicaValenti #sick

Riveted_Reader_Melissa 😂...sadly too true! 😡 5y

GingerAntics @Riveted_Reader_Melissa that was my reaction. It‘s funny that ANYONE would want to wear this shirt, but it still is angering as well. 5y

inthegreensandblues 🤢 5y

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GingerAntics @inthegreensandblues that sums it up. Yup! 5y

Chrissyreadit While all this is occurring, I wonder what the brothers are thinking? It‘s interesting that other fun deme talks patriarchic religions do this job, but this extreme evangelical uses modern culture as its platform and a way to maintain growth in the message. Some girls where a shirt that says chastity chick. My daughters asked for and got a T-shirt Salty Bitch🤣 5y

readordierachel I actually saw a teenage boy at a gas station wearing a "Virginity Rocks" tshirt a few months back. I couldn't decide if it was legit or meant to be ironic. There are a lot of churches around here, so I'm thinking the former. 5y

GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit the book did say that there are events for boys and their mothers (forgot what ridiculous name they had) where they pledge to guard and defend the virginity of the girls on their lives (sisters, friends, etc). 5y

GingerAntics @readordierachel that‘s not messed up!!! WOW!!! I read this book by the wife of this musician and apparently when they were dating and he found out she wasn‘t a virgin he almost broke up with her. I was just like “wow, seriously? You‘ll just stop loving her because she‘s not a virgin? You wanted a virgin THAT bad? Good lord.” 5y

readordierachel Do you remember the name of the musician? You've got me so curious now! 5y

GingerAntics @readordierachel oh, I do...and the name of the book I read it in. It was a funny book. I feel like I could be friends with this woman, honestly. It was Steven Curtis Chapman and it was in his wife‘s book

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GingerAntics

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women | Jessica Valenti

I have no words.
#ThePurityMyth #JessicaValenti #wtf

I‘m not sure how much more of this I can take. This is beating the reader over the head with a stick. Get on to how this is negatively effecting real people in their everyday lives.

DrSabrinaMoldenReads Yea. This is tough stuff. 5y

GingerAntics @Joyfulmimi I knew the topic was heavy. I wanted to read it because I know the negative effects this mentality has had on me. This book just isn‘t what I thought I was getting in for. It‘s all social, where as I was looking for more practical, I think. 5y

DrSabrinaMoldenReads They might be overdoing their point! Hey! We got it! 5y

GingerAntics @Joyfulmimi my thoughts exactly. This continued on for the next several chapters at least. It‘s why I gave up on the book...sadly. 5y

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GingerAntics

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women | Jessica Valenti

WTLF?!
#ThePurityMyth #JessicaValenti #icanteven #lies #wtf

TheBookHippie How I was taught and how they still teach at some parochial schools here... 5y

Graywacke Crazy... 5y

TheBookHippie Until the last decade you still had to stand in front of your church -girl only -if you became pregnant- several of my friends had to. (edited) 5y

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GingerAntics @TheBookHippie are you serious? smh 5y

GingerAntics @Graywacke it sure is 5y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics yup. If you got pregnant the girl got kicked out of school not the boy BUT IF you gave your baby up for adoption you could stay ...I could go on ! 5y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie sounds like catholic school to me! 5y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics close “Christian” 🤣🤣🤣 you realize I was in the same school with Betsy DeVos 🤢🤮 5y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie OH GOD!!! I‘m so sorry!!! 5y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie at least with Catholic school my mother ended up going to high school with Prince (the artist formally known as - who oddly enough was in the same hospital just before his death that my uncle - my mother‘s brother - was dying of the flu in at the same time) 5y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics the horror daily 🙄 and ack Prince 💜 5y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie lol it does seem there is a fresh horror every day when you go to any kind of religious school. I‘m always shocked by the folks who are super devout and they loved every minute of it. 🤷🏼‍♀️ 5y

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GingerAntics

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women | Jessica Valenti

This is a straight up lie, and egregiously lying to children should be a crime.

My high school, in a suburb of Dallas, cut out every chapter on reproduction in the biology book. We were not allowed to be told anything about reproduction in humans or animals of any kind. 🙄
#ThePurityMyth #JessicaValenti #lies #lackofintegrity #wtf

Megabooks This book is also good. It‘s about the effect later in life of all that Bush-era abstinence-based education.

Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

Butterfinger Student 1: So-and-so is out with her 'chestacles'. Student 2: Not chestacles. Testicles. Student 1: She is not an octopus. Me: First of all INTESTINES is part of the digestive system. Secondly, TESTICLES are part of a Male's reproductive system. And, finally, an octopus has TENTACLES, NOT CHESTACLES. I feel that it is my responsibility to straighten up misconceptions, not create them. 5y

GingerAntics @Butterfinger you and me both. You couldn‘t pay me enough to teach something I knew was a blatant lie. 5y

GingerAntics @Megabooks you‘re the second person to suggest that book. I think that‘s the book I thought I was reading. This one is so focused on the social side, it has yet to mention how this is effect everyday life and real relationships. 🤦🏼‍♀️ This Book is getting old, fast. 5y

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GingerAntics

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women | Jessica Valenti

Again, holy mother of sweet baby Jesus!!! Exactly ZERO people in the world are suicidal immediately following orgasm. They‘re just making up this crap as they go!!!
#ThePurityMyth #JessicaValenti #wtf

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GingerAntics

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women | Jessica Valenti

HOLY MOTHER OF SWEET BABY JESUS!!! Janice, I know you‘re in Alabama, but certainly you must know about statutory rape and incest both bring crimes, right? #ThePurityMyth #JessicaValenti #wtf #JaniceTurner

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GingerAntics

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women | Jessica Valenti

How is this legal?! It‘s a blatant lie, and it‘s needlessly dangerous.
#ThePurityMyth #JessicaValenti #wtf #lackofintegrity #lies

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GingerAntics

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women | Jessica Valenti

Uuuuuum... so telling the truth isn‘t important. Just as long as they don‘t have sex? How does that work out?! I already knew Christians like this didn‘t believe in science, but shite!!!
#ThePurityMyth #JessicaValenti #lies #lackofintegrity #wtf

Chrissyreadit I wonder what percentage of the Christian population believes this? And how this sub culture is not considered a cult? Because it relies on brain washing to maintain itself- although it has govt support if schools have to also buy into it. 5y

GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit I totally agree on the cult thing. It‘s total false information and brain washing. It‘s disturbing. I think the movement itself misleads parents, so some of them buy in that normally wouldn‘t, but when these parents find the truth, they back out. So those numbers probably don‘t exist. They would come from within, which makes them entirely unbelievable, seeing that we know they lie about everything else. 5y

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GingerAntics

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women | Jessica Valenti

I fully believe that if adults stopped treated young girls‘ sexuality as a commodity, females would stop treating their sexuality as a commodity. They are creating the problem they claim to be solving. Without them, it wouldn‘t exist and thus would not meet to be solved.
#ThePurityMyth #JessicaValenti #endthemadness #womensrights #womensrightsarehumanrights

VioletBramble I read another book about the subject (concept)of virginity a few years ago - Virgin: The Untouched History by Hanne Blank. It was fascinating. 5y

GingerAntics @VioletBramble that book is mentioned in this one, actually. I hope it‘s not as terrifying as this book. 5y

VioletBramble That book wasn't frightening. At least I don't remember it that way. It basically talked about how female virginity became an obsession during the Elizabethan era and how it evolved from then on. I recommend it if you're looking for more on the subject. 5y

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