How evangelical messages of sexual purity haunt adulthood for a generation of women
by Alison Bowen, Chicago Tribune
Nov 12, 2018
3 minutes
As a young adult, Linda Kay Klein had not had sex, but she was convinced there was a possibility she was pregnant. So much of what she had been taught about sex was focused on staying pure. What if, even as a virgin, there was a chance she failed by not following the never-quite-explained rules of her evangelical youth?
Klein describes how a culture focused on sexual purity surrounded her when she was a teenager in the 1990s, and how that haunted a generation of
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