Natalie Hoyt’s Reviews > Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free > Status Update

The ways in which purity culture and the church have contributed to sexual violence and rape culture is deplorable. I’ve always known this, but hearing firsthand accounts from survivors about ways in which they were continually victimized by the church after being assaulted or raped is making me sick to my stomach.