Virginity is Sexy (Or, How to be Good By Doing Nothing)
In my Sex, Violence & Christianity course this past semester, I used Jessica Valenti’s The Purity Myth in order to develop some interesting connections between our culture’s fetishizing of female virginity and the patriarchally-driven dogma of purity. It’s an ideology, Valenti argues, that serves men as it condemns women to be judged by one action […]