sexual purity
Abstinence from carnality
Sexual purity is abstaining from sexual activity outside religiously or culturally approved contexts—typically marriage.
The concept appears most often in conservative religious discourse, where it encompasses not just virginity but avoiding lustful thoughts, pornography, and physical intimacy before marriage.
She wore a purity ring as a pledge of sexual purity until her wedding day.
Critics argue the framework places disproportionate emphasis on women's sexuality and treats bodies as contaminated by desire.
- chastityAbstaining from sexual activity
- celibacyAbstaining from intimate relations
- self-respectValuing one's own worth
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- self-controlAbility to restrain impulses
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- sexual ethicschastity, adultery, consent, faithfulness, abstinence
- religious sexualitychastity, modesty, virginity, marital relations, abstinence
- sexual puritychastity, abstinence, lust, celibacy, modesty
- puritypure, pristine, spotless, spotlessness, immaculate
sexual puritypromiscuity
Frequent casual sexual encounters
licentiousness · lechery · wantonness · fornication · debauchery
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Sexual impurity or misconduct
defilement · concupiscence · fallen state · sinfulness · carnality
sexual puritysexual misconduct
Improper intimate behavior
harlotry · whoredom · loose morals · shamelessness · indecency
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