(The Conversation) — Extreme abstinence culture goes beyond sexual mores to advise women not to pursue leadership roles or speak out in mixed company. (The Conversation) — Millennial evangelicals are ...

"In the evangelical community, an 'impure' girl or woman isn’t just seen as damaged; she’s considered dangerous," Linda Kay Klein writes in her new book Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that ...

On July 29, 1994, thousands of teenagers gathered in Washington, D.C., to tell the nation about their pledge to remain sexually abstinent until marriage. They covered the lawn of the National Mall ...

“This is so we can stay pure and abstain from sexual sin,” he said as he awkwardly placed the purity ring onto my finger, and another one onto his. The ring’s engraving read, “True Love Waits.” I was ...

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In 1994 on the National Mall, thousands of American teens pledged abstinence until marriage. The movement it created has influenced sex education... 30 years later, the evangelical purity movement ...