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  1. Yeah, Hi, I'm Caroline.
  2. A million Cano.
  3. And today I'm gonna be talking about purity culture.
  4. So what is it, Period?
  5. Culture is a movement that aims to push the idea
  6. of waiting until marriage to have sex or preserving one's
  7. purity. So where does this come from?
  8. Well, in the 19 sixties through the eighties, it was
  9. the beginning of the sexual revolution, which was a movement
  10. that essential challenge.
  11. Traditional ideas of sexuality.
  12. Now Christians who retains during this era began having kids
  13. around the 19 nineties, when sexual promiscuity was at an
  14. all time high.
  15. The average amount people with more than 10 sexual partners
  16. had increased by 10% since the seventies, and aides had
  17. become a leading cause of death in North America.
  18. The natural reaction of religious or evangelical groups was to
  19. try and change this by offering Christian sex education classes
  20. in making it a priority to speak about sex or,
  21. more importantly, not having sex in youth ministries.
  22. So what has this movement become?
  23. Purity culture was intended to keep sex sacred and to
  24. keep young men and women.
  25. It's safe from the negative effects of promiscuity, like pregnancy
  26. or STDs, but somewhere along the way, it got radicalized.
  27. The movement became an outlet for the spread of misinformation
  28. regarding sex and kept the church's youth in the dark
  29. about important sex education.
  30. As if not knowing too much about sex would make
  31. teams any less horny, it shifted the mentality of waiting
  32. to have sex within marriage because it's beautiful and meant
  33. to be shared in the sanctity of a marriage to
  34. waiting to have sex within marriage because of fear, guilt
  35. and shame, fear of getting pregnant, the guilt of not
  36. giving your whole self to your future spouse or disappointing
  37. God, or simply the shame of being slept.
  38. Now, why was this so bad?
  39. Why is this so bad?
  40. Ah, big part of this movement was directed towards women
  41. and how virginity is where our value compass.
  42. Um, it encouraged modesty to avoid sexual assault.
  43. Instead of teaching men of the importance of respect and
  44. self control.
  45. This movement also characterized sex as something dirty and feelings
  46. like lust as something shameful and disgusting.
  47. It created a toxic shame that contributes to genuinely dangerous
  48. addictions like porn and masturbation.
  49. So what should this movement really be about?
  50. Well, purity culture was constructed with good intent, but it
  51. was fueled by fear, which leads unhealthy misconceptions around sex.
  52. The hope is that sex education continues to be taught
  53. in churches, But more realistically, cane should be aware of
  54. the consequences of sex before marriage and the true reasons
  55. God made it to be shared by a married man
  56. and a woman.
  57. My hope is that churches stop breathing shame and sexual
  58. dysfunction and instead rejoice the gift of intimacy.
  59. Thank you.