Holistic Trauma Healing with Lindsey Lockett

Episode 14: Purity Culture & Trauma, Healthy Sex Education, Sex Positivity, and Exvangelicalism with Blair from @talkpuritytome

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In this episode, Blair from @talkpuritytome and I...

  • explain what purity culture is and what the relatively new term “exvangelical” means
  • discuss how the absence of sex education fostered an environment for the harmful practices and beliefs of purity culture to spread
  • reveal how purity culture was the method by which evangelical, fundamentalist Christianity wanted to control its members and those member’s sex lives
  • describe the sexual abuse that was and is purity culture
  • share how the end result of purity culture was deep shame, misinformation, guilt, and trauma.
  • call out the abuse of purity culture
  • discuss how people who are now in their mid-20s to mid-40s are the generation most devastated by purity culture
  • discuss resources for informed sex education and healing the trauma of purity culture
  • discuss the deconstruction of evangelical Christianity
  • expose the roots of purity culture and evangelicalism (hint: fear is a big one)
  • discuss the homophobic, monogamy-only paradigm of evangelicalism and how it manipulates followers and keeps them stuck
  • talk about how the generation who was raised in purity culture is now choosing differently as parents themselves
  • discuss why sex and religion need to be disconnected completely
  • expose the utter lack of boundaries in evangelicalism and why establishing boundaries is a big piece of the healing puzzle

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