Pure Trash: Purity Culture and Patriarchy

True love is mutual, but purity and #TrueLoveWaits culture wants to replace generous mutuality with patriarchy and the oppression of women.

 

"men and women are different but equal" 
"women are helpmates, men heads of household" 
"wives and husbands both submit to each other, but…. differently" 

 

Purity culture not only creates gendered hierarchy within relationships, it also makes women and girls responsible for managing the sexuality, fantasy life, and violence of boys and men.

 

But what does the Bible *actually* have to say about this? Turns out Jesus was a radical feminist, and much of what he had to say about lust, adultery, and purity is actually about turning the tables to put a fair share of responsibility back on men.

 

Only with true equality can people of all genders find Biblical, Godly love.