The Purity Movement

[Brian37]

It amounts to child abuse. These youngsters are damaged goods for life. Every enjoyment will carry with it the fear of damnation. That's what's making me most angry at religion.

Their girls are not your responsibility. Now I do not agree with all the purity movement but, there are good things about it.

Christians do not see things like this as limiting, we see it as growing in a relationship with the God we'll spend eternity with.

GC

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I just find the Purity Movement utterly creepy and wrong. It's child abuse, "pure" and simple.

How is it child abuse, parents are trying to protect their daughters, I use to be a teenager and haven't forgotten what went on back then. I can assure you I would not want my daughter (if I had one) to be exposed to some of the things that go on in the world.

GC

No, there is nothing good about it because it is merely a religious distortion of nature.

Yes everyone wants to protect their kids. But you used the word "daughter" and a marriage is not solely her responsibility. This meme sold by your book is a patriarchal meme because back when it was written the protection of girls was more of a bartering tool with other families and back then the desires of the girl if she did not agree were not important. The family honor and ability to build alliances with other families was for the men to decide.

That book at best treats girls and women as props to make the male heros look good, but most of the time it treats women as scapegoats, and cattle and fields to be planted.

Not even the most important female character is mentioned that much. A few blurbs when the angel tells Mary she is going to give birth to the hero, then not much during the life of Jesus, and and a few mentions at his death. It doesn't say anything about her likes or personal desires outside of supporting him. Even Mary is written like a prop.