I completely disagree with this premise. It dangerously absolves conservative Christians for their intimate involvement in creating the 1990s/2000s Teen Culture.

March 08, 2026 - 23:07 UTC

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This is just Culture War click bait, to distract you from the uber rich robbing us.
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No, it's a conversation about the real-life damages of purity culture.
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If the author isn't a chomo, her husband is.
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Also they were SEXUALLY ABUSING AND EXPLOITING YOUNG PEOPLE THE ENTIRE FUCKING TIME, going "gotta hand it to them, they did have a point" is infuriating
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Shame protects abusers. That's what it's FOR.

How dull does someone have to be to miss that in the year of our lord 1̶9̶5̶6̶ 1̶9̶8̶6̶ 2̶0̶1̶6̶ 2026?
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Yeah, it's deeply infuriating. Like, the only "point" they were ever making was just, "the kids should be their exclusive property to abuse"
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Do we have to hand it to Harold Hill about pool causing trouble? Or Velma Von Tussle about race mixing? The Victorians about the moral dangers of letting girls read novels?

I’m so old I remember when rock music was satanic. Now every evangelical church has a house rock band.
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Every generation had its moral panics over young people being corrupted by outside influences. That’s easier than realizing the kids are growing up and your influence as parents is waning.
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@alt-text.bsky.social
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Alt text retrieved
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I thought that was pedo Don and his buddies.
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It also completely absolves conservative Christians for their role in ABUSING CHILDREN. Southern Baptists and Jehovah's Witnesses are just two of the denominations who protected child rapists.

They were saying one thing and doing something entirely different. PROTECTING POWERFUL MALE RAPISTS.
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Gross. These are the same people so often sexually abusing young people.
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www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2026/02/23/voices-age-appropriate-books-about/
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Just a few examples: Katy Perry was a CCM artist. Britney Spears grew up Southern Baptist. Jessica Simpson was given a purity ring by her minister father. Justin Timberlake is the child of a Baptist church choir director. Christina Aguilera is a Mormon homeschool alum.
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Stefani!
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Tom DeLonge learned guitar at church camp. Coachella is owned by a conservative evangelical. The world's second-largest presenter of live music and entertainment events, after Live Nation, is owned by a conservative evangelical.
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She consistently has some of the *worst* takes
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"Conservative Christians" complained of sexualization of children in the 90s-00s while simultaneously raping and molesting children.
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I like to ask at what age they think it’s appropriate to explain what virginity entails.
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Jessica Simpson was oggled hard by her own dad every time I saw them on tv together. He was a minister until she became famous.
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Purity culture IS pedo culture.
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It totally is.

On of the core beliefs in evangelical culture a hierarchy: God -> man -> woman -> children. Protection and leadership flows down. Honor and obedience flows up.

Another is men are sexual creatures in a way women and children are not.
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Uh, didn't they blame Harry Potter?
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