{"id":201,"date":"2011-12-07T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2011\/12\/the-purity-myth\/"},"modified":"2012-08-10T00:29:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T04:29:50","slug":"the-purity-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2011\/12\/the-purity-myth.html","title":{"rendered":"The Purity Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Purity Myth (2011) -- Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oAGqfEU-FpQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'>This is <\/span><em>beautiful<\/em><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'>. For a full transcript, see <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/2011\/12\/06\/the-purity-myth-the-documentary\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'>. I think the very best part comes at the end: \u201cThe purity myth is the lie that women\u2019s sexuality has some bearing on  who we are and how good we are, because really I think we all know that  young women are so much more than whether or not they have sex. We  really should be teaching our daughters that their ability to be good  people should be based on their intelligence, on their compassion, their  kindness, not what they do with their bodies.\u201d <\/span><em>This<\/em><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'> is what I\u2019ve been saying all along! The idolization of virginity makes what women do with their vaginas more important than how they treat other people or their skills and abilities. All that matters is what is between their legs. And seriously, how much sense does <\/span><em>that <\/em><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'>make? <\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is beautiful. For a full transcript, see here. 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