True Love Waits: A Woman's Perspective

I just put up an article about sexual purity, abstinence, purity culture, and True Love Waits Weekends: "True Love Waits: What My Youth Pastor Did Right"

It was my personal views on growing up in that culture, how it shaped me and my views on sex. And it was mostly positive.

I know full well it is not the whole story, which I why I put out a question to my women Facebook friends:

During the True Love Waits weekends or at other times when girls were getting taught by themselves (perhaps only by ---the youth pastor's wife), or another female leader) were you ever made to feel as if sex itself was dirty or to feel guilty about your body and how boys will lust over it. Note, I'm not asking if girls were called to sexual purity or abstinence or to dress modestly, but if instead sex itself was looked down on or guilt was associated with sex.

True Love Waits: What My Youth Pastor Did Right

Do you feel that?

We are heading towards the middle of February and that means love is in the air.

So I bet you have guessed already what this article is about. That's right!:

Abstinence, waiting until marriage, True Love Waits, kissing dating goodbye, purity rings, purity balls, purity itself, and of course my exact specifications of how far is too far! 

I guess you could say I am more of the 50 Shades of White Hot Holy Purity variety.