Purity (Un)cultured: My Hardware Store Sex Talk, aged 29

Purity Culture was just another religious aberration in regards to sex introduced to protect, (read, ‘control’), Christian teenagers. Not only was sex before marriage a sin it was a quick and easy pathway to unforgivable slutdom for women. In a good old misogynist salute to patriarchy it was a bit more forgivable but a forever shaming sin for boys. So, best practice, don’t ask, don’t tell.

Clare Heath McIvor had her own battle with purity culture but she is an amazing woman. Her story told on 60 minutes late last year. With her husband she left her father’s church which they claimed was not a good place for her or the gay husband her father encouraged her to marry. Please subscribe and if you can give just one dollar, please help us through https://www.patreon.com/Nosexplease to support LGBTIQ refugees who have suffered a living hell in Africa where it’s about to get worse.

The story was recently featured in Melbourne’s Age and the Sydney Morning Herald newspapers. It also featured on Channel 9’s “60 Minutes Program” in November 2022. 

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Clare McIvor writes on her blog www.kitkennedy.com
Clare’s blogging website is https://kitkennedy.com/. Her podcast website is https://www.unchurchablepodcast.com
The Age and SMH story: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/inside-city-builders-the-pentecostal-sect-with-lofty-political-goals-20221117-p5bz1x.html
The 60 Minutes expose: https://youtu.be/qY6BAgxHEGQ