Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free By Linda Kay Klein

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In Pure, Linda Kay Klein uses a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir to take us “inside religious purity culture as only one who grew up in it can” (Gloria Steinem) and reveals the devastating effects evangelical Christianity’s views on female sexuality has had on a generation of young women.In the 1990s, a “purity industry” emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a dangerous message: girls are potential sexual “stumbling blocks” for boys and men, and any expression of a girl’s sexuality could reflect the corruption of her character. This message traumatized many girls—resulting in anxiety, fear, and experiences that mimicked the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder—and trapped them in a cycle of shame. This is the sex education Linda Kay Klein grew up with. Fearing being marked a Jezebel, Klein broke up with her high school boyfriend because she thought God told her to and took pregnancy tests despite being a virgin, terrified that any sexual activity would be punished with an out-of-wedlock pregnancy. When the youth pastor of her church was convicted of sexual enticement of a twelve-year-old girl, Klein began to question purity-based sexual ethics. She contacted young women she knew, asking if they were coping with the same shame-induced issues she was. These intimate conversations developed into a twelve-year quest that took her across the country and into the lives of women raised in similar religious communities—a journey that facilitated her own healing and led her to churches that are seeking a new way to reconcile sexuality and spirituality. Pure is “a revelation... Part memoir and part journalism, Pure is a horrendous, granular, relentless, emotionally true account" (The Cut) of society’s larger subjugation of women and the role the purity industry played in maintaining it. Offering a prevailing message of resounding hope and encouragement, “Pure emboldens us to escape toxic misogyny and experience a fresh breath of freedom” (Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior and founder of Together Rising).

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It is easy to have a knee-jerk reaction to this scathing denunciation of the evangelical “pure” or abstinence movement in the 1990s, which challenged young people to wait until marriage to have sex--especially as an evangelical father who encouraged his teenage son and daughter to follow these guidelines. Probably her all-condemning title, Pure, with the subtitle Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free, shocked me into reading it. The title, however, gives the false accusation that every young woman exposed to this movement was “shamed” by it, which of course she cannot rightfully claim since she only interviewed a couple of hundred women and it would take only one woman from her generation with her same circumstances to disprove her findings. I, personally, know women who were helped by the movement and I am confident there are thousands more who would disagree with Ms. Klein’s conclusion.Yet, despite her grandiose charge in the book’s title, she does make some valid points. For example, in the abstinence classes taught in public schools there is an analogy made with chewing gum saying that having sex with multiple partners is like chewing a piece of gum and giving it to someone else and someone else and someone else—the point being: “You wouldn’t want to chew that used piece of gum, would you? It’s the same way with sex.” Unfortunately, the underlying message communicated by this is: If you have had sex of any kind you are worthless and unworthy of a godly wife or husband even if you repent. I never liked this analogy, or those like it, because it does not take into account the forgiving nature of God and His redemptive abilities. The point, however, that Klein misses is: when couples do wait to share their physical intimacy with each other it is a precious gift they are bringing to the marriage relationship—the message being: I don’t want to do this with just anyone but only with the one I am committed to for life in the confines of a marriage covenant.Another point the author brought up is the double standard within some evangelical churches between men and women. She gives the example of being told to change her shirt when it got wet at a fundraising car wash while the boys involved were free to go shirtless. Good point. Why were boys allowed to go half nude and girls were not allowed to have wet shirts? They weren’t at a beach. She also wrote that she felt there was much more emphasis on women in her church on not being “stumbling stones” than for men not to lust after women.A third point, which could be controversial in some religious circles, was the restriction of women from leadership roles other than in Sunday school and children’s programs without the possibility of being recognized as valid ministers in other areas. She gives the testimony of an interviewee who had to be satisfied with being a Sunday school director when she felt called to minister to adults as well.Although I found Ms. Klein makes a few good points, after reading more than 50% of her book, it became apparent to me that she was not really interested in what the Bible teaches about sexuality, but only in expressing her own sexuality without feeling guilty about it. When she finally does lose her virginity in a Japanese hotel room at 26 with her boyfriend she writes: “I prayed the whole while. Thanking God for the moment, the man, and most of all, that I might finally be free. And a holy presence filled the room. My boyfriend startled. ‘Is someone in here?’ he asked. ‘Yes,’ I answered him.” According to the Bible, however, “fornication” (or having sexual intercourse without being married) or sexual immorality, is prohibited so if God’s presence did come into the room, you would think she would have refrained from it rather than going through with it. Yet, she takes that experience as a free pass to indulge the flesh and declares herself free from the shackles of shame. Although there are many verses in the New Testament regarding sexual immorality, here is one from 1 Thessalonians 4:3: “For this is the will of God, our sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality.”In the final analysis, Klein, who describes herself as “spiritual” as opposed to “Christian” and someone who cannot call God with a masculine pronoun, has created a god in her own image who conveniently shares her values regarding sexuality, and finds people and secular studies to justify her beliefs. Although she blames the “pure” movement and evangelicals with her sex/shame problem, she would have been more honest to say she simply does not agree with what the Bible plainly teaches about sexuality and leave it at that.As a “spiritual person,” I guess, as opposed to being a Christian, she is not bound to the Bible and its values. As a Christian, however, or Christ follower, whether young or old, the basis for faith and values is not how strongly one feels about something, or what other people say or do, it’s simply this: what does God’s Word say?2 Timothy 3:16 & 17: “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work (NIV).”

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