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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well. I am glad I read the book (listened to the audiobook with all its extras, actually—including interviews with people mentioned in the book) because this forum made it seem like a gross disaster.

I found it measured and sincere. Funny at times and bittersweet. You don’t have to like her or agree with her deconstruction to recognize it as a well written book that is going to speak to a LOT of us—especially if you did grow up in a youth group in the 90s as a girl. Maybe some of you did not.[/quote]

I did not. And I think that’s why the slam on 90’s purity culture runs so hollow for me. I, and a lot of my friends, experienced the harms from the opposite view point. Jen and her entire coven all seem to act as if “free sex with whoever, whenever” as a TEENAGER, is the healthier route for life. I can assure you, it is not.  
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Thank you. So much this. When I was in the more progressive church environment, where a lot of the women who had grown up in the church were complaining about purity culture, a friend and mentor who was far more sympathetic to the deconstruction phenomenon than me, but who had worked in the financial services industry and lived a very secular life in his 20s and 30s said to me, "So many of these women have no idea how much awfulness they missed out on." He told me that the way many of the men he worked with in the industry viewed and treated women was absolutely awful. It would be nice if the women complaining about purity culture had a little perspective. I think a lot of the deconstruction culture is made up of people who really lack perspective and can't take responsibility for their own choices. [/quote]

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