Purity Culture Insults Men, Too
By Laurie Penoyer-Phillips Purity Culture doesn't just suppress, enslave, and harm Christian women psychologically, emotionally, relationally, and spiritually...Believe it or not, Christian men are targets, too. It recently occurred to me as I contemplated the depth of this deceptive and divisive subject, that the types of Christians who participate so willingly and fully embrace Purity Culture, especially Independent Fundamental Baptists (my personal upbringing) and the like, are really "man-haters" even more than they are misogynistic. Purity Culture (PC), and the Christians who uphold it, treat all men as totally helpless, mindlessly rutting and grunting, sex-driven Neanderthals who walk, and talk, and think with their penises. It's really quite insulting when you think about it . In their version of manhood , all men remain sexually , emotionally, and intellectually immature way past puberty. Ever-hormonally charged and lust-driven, they can never be trust