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Date: December 18, 2023 07:54AM
No right of refusal? Go back before the Renaissance to the Dark Ages?
Where does it end?
I remember seeing Lysistrata for the first time on stage at university. The in-joke was that proper women had no existence outside of the home and men didn't have romance or sex for pleasure with their wives anyway. That's what the heterae and boys were for.
All this is just additional evidence that the real goal is control over bodily autonomy. Religion is just the ways and means.
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03616843221091116Historical Underpinnings and the Modern Purity Movement
The Christian purity movement first rose in influence during the 1970s as an evangelical reaction to the free love movement, pro-choice, and birth control activism of the sexual revolution (Anderson, 2015; Latour, 2020; Moslener, 2015). Evangelicalism is a worldwide, trans-denominational movement within Protestant Christianity. It differs from other forms of Christianity based on the focus of converting other faith groups to a belief of salvation through Jesus Christ and commonly upholds literal interpretations of the Bible (Lewis & Pierard, 2014). The evangelical purity movement grew in popularity during the 1990s/2000s, targeting youth groups across the country. Purity culture has become the term used for the evangelical movement that promotes a biblical view of sexual purity by requiring strict adherence to sexual abstinence before marriage and supporting only heterosexual, married, and monogamous forms of sexual activity (Latour, 2020). The ethics of purity spans various religious sects. For example, Mormons use the word worthiness instead of purity, while Muslims say honor culture instead of purity culture (Klein, 2021). In the current study, we emphasize the construct of purity culture within evangelical Christianity specifically.
Gender and sexual control are at the crux of the ethics of purity. Unique to this movement are the types of tools and practices used to enforce gender and sexual control. Popularized modalities for circulating the purity movement rhetoric led to a “sex obsessed culture of chastity, including purity balls, virginity clubs, and ritualized celibacy pledges” (Fahs, 2010, p. 117). The most notable of these was the Southern Baptist Convention’s creation of the True Love Waits campaign, launched in 1993 and known for large gatherings of teens making public displays of their abstinence commitments (Moslener, 2015). It is noteworthy that this same organization, the Southern Baptist denomination, helped define the history of American racism through its advocacy for segregation and support of the enslavement of African Americans, dating back to 1860 (Green, 2020).
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