Purity culture promotes rape culture   In purity culture women
pledge their bodies to their future husbands: They can’t say yes
to sex until they’re married, at which point they don’t “have
the right to say no,” says Dianna Anderson in RH Reality Check.
These religious beliefs prevent women from recognizing healthy
sexual encounters, and they compound shame for sexual assault
victims who fail to understand that “giving in to coercion or
not saying ‘no’ isn’t a ‘yes,’ ” she says.     Categories:
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Responses    1. Jackson says:      Of course misogynist,
archaic, religious double standards are to blame. Just like with
the pro-life movement, those that want to dictate moral
standards to women want to shame them away from exercising their
rights to choice. The result is exactly that – sex is given an
unnatural label as immoral and women can’t do what they choose.
They have to do what men want them to. This also means that a
rape victim is less likely to c