Hi there, I'm Julie Slattery and I'm so glad that you've joined me today.

In Java with Julie is a production of authentic intimacy, a ministry dedicated to reclaiming and teaching God's design for sexuality.

And we're going to do just that today.

We're going to talk about a message that was touted for many years as God's design.

But it left a lot of shame and confusion in its wake.

I'm talking about the purity movement of the 90s, true love weights, purity pledges, purity rings.

All of these concepts possessed a kernel of truth that God's design for sex is marriage,

but they also presented an imperfect picture of sexual purity and wholeness.

I believe this is a very important conversation. So we'll be sharing with you a three-part series.

In this episode, Hannah and I are discussing how the fallout of the purity movement has impacted

marriages and created shame and confusion for some men and women who feel like their stories

didn't fit into the purity narrative. So let's dive into the conversation.

Well, we are here in our new digs in Akron, Ohio at Compass Coffee Shop. Yeah, we're at Compass

Coffee, and it's so fun to have you in Ohio, Julie. Yeah, it is. I like being here. I'm wondering when the sun's going to come out, but I never had. I'm pretty happy. We have a lot of things in Ohio, but we don't get a lot of sun. No, so I'll have to make frequent trips to places like Colorado. But you know what? Our Compass Coffee lattes are delicious. If you guys ever come to Compass Coffee, I recommend the Sweet Moses Latte. It's delightful. Sweet Moses. Is that what I have? You ordered for me. It's so good. Yeah. It's like cinnamon, honey, just wonderfulness. So it makes you want to say Sweet Moses when you take a drink. You know, I've never asked why it's called Sweet Moses. Yeah Moses yeah but now you know I can't say I ever use that expression in everyday life no I have

never I have never used it you did today I did yeah it's there's a first for everything well

welcome to Ohio Julie thank you yeah so we've got a tough topic to dive into today and

we do yeah it's one of those that is this is going to be a tough conversation, a needed conversation.

Yeah.

And Hannah, this is something that we've been talking about at our ministry for a couple of years now.

But now I think that the conversation is becoming more vocal.

And it's about this whole idea of the purity narrative, the purity

culture, and how, while there are some good things about the message of purity that's been

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