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Growing Up Asexual In The Purity Culture Movement

I grew up in a homeschooling, conservative, evangelical household. I grew up believing homosexuality was a sin, along with premarital sex. I grew up with the full weight of purity culture on me, firmly convicted that not only did I need to save sex for marriage, I also needed to save my first kiss and every other remotely sexual act. At the same time, I was inundated with the patriarchal, “biblical”…