![]() ![]() So that's when you started to see things like purity rings and purity pledges and purity curricula, even purity-themed Bibles. ![]() ![]() "The purity movement, which is what these organizations were a part of, very quickly turned into a purity industry, which these organizations were also a part of. On growing up in the purity movement, and the industry that formed around it with programs like Silver Ring Thing Scroll down to read an excerpt from "Pure"."The message that girls get, that if you are impure or deemed impure by the community - because ultimately it's the community that decides whether you're pure or impure - that there's really no place for you in the community," Klein says. Here & Now's Robin Young talks with Klein ( about her book " Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free," which shares those interviews and explores research around sexual shaming. She and her friends were taught that girls were not only responsible for maintaining their own purity, but also that of the boys and men they interacted with.Īs an adult, Klein interviewed hundreds of women who had similar experiences - some still suffering from anxiety, depression and an inability to have normal romantic and sexual relationships. She broke up with her high school boyfriend after being convinced the joy and excitement she felt around him made her impure and dirty. Linda Kay Klein grew up a devout Evangelical Christian in the Midwest. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more than 4 years old. ![]()
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