This episode marks the one year anniversary of Transmission!

In this episode we conclude our discussion around "Purity Culture" with special guest Ellen Morey. We discuss the https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/churchtoo?__eep__=6and__tn__=*NK-R (#ChurchToo) movement (where purity culture nurtures and upholds abuse), the role purity culture played in the recent Atlanta Spa Murders, and more.

Purity Culture" emerged in the 1990s as conservative Christians sought to promote sexual abstinence before marriage. It was, however, part of a larger religious tendency to see correctness or "doing the right things the right way" as the core of spirituality.

We can see this broader, deeply performative, tendency operative in many places, even well outside conservative Christian spaces. And, in many of those places, it becomes a suffocating approach to life that subordinates life to an unhealthy ideal.