Bitch Media - abstinence en Preacher's Daughter: Sexual Violence
and Discourses of "Purity" <p>October is Domestic Abuse
Awareness Month, and my friend, <a title="Inside Outed blog "
href="" target="_blank">Katie Mulligan</a>, has been blogging to
<a title="Intimate Violence: Light" href=""
target="_blank">raise awareness of intimate violence</a>. She
writes that she decided to do this "because the silence around
this subject, even when I speak, is staggering." In <a
title="Intimate Violence: Purity" href="" target="_blank">her
most recent post</a>, Mulligan remembers what it was like to go
to a teen abstinence rally as a victim of childhood sexual
abuse.&nbsp;</p> <p>She says this promotional video captures the
spirit of that rally:</p> <p><iframe width="420" height="315"
src="" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>I have
always found the evangelical injunction to remain sexually
"pure" until marriage <a title="Study: 'Virginity Pledges' Are
Ineffective " href="" target="_blank">naïve and unreali