Linda Kay Klein & many other women, who describe this culture as weaponized against them.

Sexy Drunk Christians: Chapter 1 Polluted Thinking Part 5

Virginity is a gift brought to the marriage, mainly by the woman because men cannot control themselves but make up for this flaw by leading the home as a breadwinning, spiritual leader as the woman assumes the wife/mother house-manger position: roles God assigned and clarified by the respective presence of penis and vagina. The Christian wife/mother’s success or failure reveals in raising accountable, hardworking sons and training girls to dress modestly to keep boys safe from themselves. Responsible for men’s impurity and her own, the Christian wife/mother emphasizes the daughter’s modest dress and the necessity to save themselves for marriage. Fellow Christians help by vilifying fellow believers, mainly women, and girls internalize this stigma, incriminating their behavior and past as men find forgiveness as victims of their nature, prone to impure women leading them astray.

This is purity: the total failure of Christian values derived from bad thinking.

A toxic culture of misogyny arises in expectations for women to sexually please men with their untouched-by-another-man, pure vaginas, justified by the penis-wielder as the leader. If not sexually or domestically abused, women suffer the internalization of impurity since clearly, they lead men astray, causing girls and women like Linda Kay Klein “an epidemic” of that “is traumatizing many girls and maturing women haunted by sexual and gender-based anxiety, fear, and physical experiences” not unlike “the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).”¹

How would you feel if taught your sexuality and gender are the cause of your and others’ sin?

Like many Christian beliefs, purity proves to be another tool of patriarchy that maintains women in service to men. More than reinforcing male domination, Klein reveals purity as the measurement of Christian commitment, a sign of authenticity, and part of an “‘us’ versus ‘them’” mentality.² Purity unifies but also elevates Christians to that sanctimonious arrogance they feel for holding the truth. Purity, more than just an untouched vagina for men to enjoy, serves as a key to the Christian community that locks out the impure, inauthentic Christians and nonChristians. The purity key opens the door for liberals, conservatives, all sects, and all classes, differing only in names: modesty or purity.

Still, more than a membership, purity values women like used cars and, in the extreme, inspires INCEL entitlement to sex, even rape, because purity teaches just that: male entitlement to women’s bodies. These values filter into the broader US culture, as you will see, and not exactly as…

1. Klein, Linda Kay. Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free (p. 8). Atria Books. Kindle Edition.

2. Ibid (pg. 10)