Purity Culture

Linda Kay Klein - Paraphrase "Evangelical Christian purity culture creates a kind of PTSD among survivors."

 

Elizabeth Smart - Kidnapped and rapped, yet is she still the chewed up peice of gum?

 

Religious Trauma Syndrome - Michelle Panchuk of the Center for Philosophy of Religion

 

Paraphrase "The couching of religion makes it difficult to determine that one is in fact being traumatized."