You need to understand: the average American’s psychological state around sex is indistinguishable from that of a frightened Spanish peasant during the Inquisition
Everything is sexual and nothing is supposed to be. They believe sex jokes are Satan putting his dick in your kids’ ear. They believe nudity alone is mind rape. Sexual innuendo or reference might as well be molestation.
This is also the country where grown men take their daughters to “purity balls” where they slow dance together all night and talk about sexual preservation and making sure you dont break your hymen and become a whore until god has given you a man who will treat you right by isolating you and forcing you to live as a housewife in honor of god.
This country is going to unironically look like the fucking Scarlet Letter if we don’t seriously push back against moral panic induced sexual psychosis.
@DemonMama
I know you've mentioned growing up mostly in a crazy kinda church environment. Did y'all do purity rings/pledges? Church I went to in my teens made a whole deal of the youth group (guys and girls) getting rings and promising God to "save ourselves" for marriage. Ya know, to remain pure for our future spouses. Looking back I just kinda laugh at how dumb and performative it all was. Outside of maybe preventing as many teen pregnancies from happening it is also a kinda useless idea.
@CyberWolf1013 the purity rings/pledges hadn't become popular in the cult I was in by the time I had left. There were many similar things, oaths and vows to god and the like. Purity culture was deeply entrenched in the rest of the practices of the church. Its very possible the rings and pledges themselves became popular after I had left.
