When Your Sexual History Comes Back to Haunt You
Nicolle Maurer
If anyone grew up in the church, they remember the “True Love Waits” movement. Today the whole movement is referred to as “purity culture,” and there are many who are writing about how harmful it has been to men and women alike. The goal originally was to help young men and women still are sexually pure before marriage, not having sex with anyone until their spouse. Some authors even went to the extreme of no dating or kissing before marriage. There was so much focus on the harm of sex before marriage and how bad it was, how shameful it was, that there was little to no discussion on the...
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