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Doug Phillips has released a "clarification."

Fundamentalist and conservative evangelical Christianity is weird. Women are taught to dress modestly in public,...

While I don't think it has wide circulation today, Homosexuality: Legitimate, Alternative Deathstyle was pretty...

I can't believe you are almost thirteen. I remember holding you in my arms when...

In which Michael Pearl uses the candy bar analogy.

So. Miley Cyrus. It seems she sang a song at the 2013 MTV VMAs. Mostly...

Every time purity culture issues come up---purity rings, purity balls, saving your first kiss for...

I honestly don't feel like Rachel's post was clear at all, and perhaps that's because...

The O2 Experience is an organization that goes around the country giving talks on "Life,...

"Mommy, what's this?" In her hand Sally held a condom, still in its wrapper. Sean...

Presents, chocolate bars, roses, chewing gum, packing tape---these sorts of metaphors abound in circles where...

I've written before suggesting that if pro-lifers are consistent, they should be in favor of...

Remember how I wrote recently about how the belief that one's virginity is of utmost...

A Guest Post by Abel. But really, what I took to heart from all this...

This story, written a century ago, encapsulated everything I was taught about emotional attachments and...

There were three weavers---Herthold, Hubert, and Hildgardmar---who were neighbors and friends. To each was born...

It's sort of like the social construction of gender, actually. A girl who grows up...

The purity culture urges young people to marry not based on lust or romantic feelings,...

"Smile! Your Mom Chose Life!" I found this slogan very compelling when I opposed abortion....

As a teen, I babysat a lot. Not so my brother. Within evangelicalism, the idea...

In this post I will pull together some of the responses to this month's prompt:...

As a young conservative evangelical, I was taught that men were visual and easily aroused,...

Danielle of From Two to One has posed a question: What does sexy mean? I...

I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about the problems of the...

I am loving what is going on this week in the Christian blogosphere. There is...

There's a new study out on the relationship between sexual frequency and male participation in...

Elizabeth Esther has been writing some excellent pieces about the purity culture and virginity recently,...

Christian author Jerry Jenkins has written a book on building "hedges" around your marriage to...

"In response to claims that men are unable to restrain themselves from committing rape if...

As I left the conservative evangelicalism of my youth, I learned that many of these...