purity movement
Chastity promotion campaign
The purity movement is a Christian evangelical campaign promoting sexual abstinence before marriage, prominent in American youth culture from the 1990s through 2000s.
Associated with purity rings, purity balls (formal dances where daughters pledge virginity to their fathers), and abstinence-only sex education.
Critics argue it promotes shame around sexuality and disproportionately burdens girls: She grew up in the purity movement and struggled with guilt long after marriage.
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
- virginityAbsence of carnal experience
- chastityAbstaining from sexual activity
- pledgeBinding promise given
- evangelicalZealously advocating beliefs
modesty · courtship · true love waits · innocence · white · bride · wedding night · shame · guilt · holiness · virtue · temptation · first kiss · boundaries · dating · kiss · father-daughter · promise
purity movementsexual liberation
Freedom in intimate matters
free love · sexual revolution · promiscuity · hookup culture · sex positivity
purity movement1960s counterculture
Sixties anti-establishment movement
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