The right’s warped “purity” culture: 4 ways evangelical views of sex took over America

[DonViejo]

Evangelical norms about female sexuality have shaped "secular" America more than you think

KATIE MCDONOUGH

Kiera Feldman’s recent New Republic report on the convergence of rape culture and evangelical culture at a private Christian university in Virginia is a deeply troubling story. It’s also a disturbingly familiar one.

In a series of interviews with female survivors of sexual violence at Patrick Henry College, Feldman uncovered an institutional pattern of victim-blaming and impunity for perpetrators that was grounded in the school’s strict adherence to evangelical doctrine, specifically its “gender complementarian” norms and toxic purity culture.

Though generally viewed as a safe haven for young people with an evangelical Christian worldview, Patrick Henry College turned out to be a very dangerous place to be a survivor of sexual assault. It is, in other words, much like everywhere else in this country.

Evangelical Christianity makes visible — through purity pledges and doctrine assigning women the role of man’s “helpmate” — the norms and expectations about female virginity and subservience that so often remain hidden in the secular world. While it may be tempting to draw a red line around Christian fundamentalist views on gender and sexuality to distinguish them from supposedly evolved “secular” culture, there is considerable, uncomfortable overlap between the two.

Here are four ways “secular” American culture mirrors Christian purity culture.

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http://www.salon.com/2014/02/20/the_rights_warped_purity_culture_4_ways_evangelical_views_of_sex_took_over_america/

[Prophet 451]

1. Link's bad

In Firefox, it gives a "this page isn't redirecting properly" message, Chrome gets a "this page has a redirect loop" message.

Shame as the article sounds fascinating. I've often thought that the fundiegelical's wildly unrealistic ideas about sexuality must lead to some pretty fucked up ideas about what is and isn't acceptable in terms of conduct toward women.

[DonViejo]

2. I just used it and went directly to the article but,

here it is again:

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/20/the_rights_warped_purity_culture_4_ways_evangelical_views_of_sex_took_over_america/

[Prophet 451]

3. Same problem

It's not your link, it's the page itself. I just tried going in from a Google search and got the same response.

[DonViejo]

4. I'm not experiencing the problem at all...

try going to Salon.com and get to the article from the "front page" of Salon.

[Prophet 451]

8. Can't find it

This is clearly a problem at my end, I'll work it out.

[cbayer]

6. It opened just fine for me. Maybe a browser problem on your end?

[Prophet 451]

7. Must be

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. I get the same problem - using Firefox; it's now on alternet, which opens OK

http://www.alternet.org/sex-amp-relationships/4-ways-conservatives-are-fighting-control-womens-sex-lives?paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark

[cbayer]

5. Excellent article and well worth the read.

Republicans are trying to set women's rights back decades.

What is it exactly that they are so afraid of?

At a time when they appear to need every vote they can get, this seems like a really boneheaded agenda.