239: Purity Culture IS Rape Culture
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Whenever I say the phrase "Purity Culture is Rape Culture," my DMs and comments explode with angry people asking why I'm attacking people who decide to practice abstinence.
I thought I'd explain what I mean when I say this phrase in this short video.
Purity Culture is much bigger than the mere concept of abstinence – it's a toxic CULTURE that generally places the weight of all sexual violation or perceived wrongdoing on the shoulders of women while alleviating all responsibility on the man's part.
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. |
| 0:06.0 | Listener discretion is advised. You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, |
| 0:11.0 | a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. |
| 0:19.0 | The testimony shared on this podcast are told |
| 0:22.4 | from the personal experience and perspective of the survivors. Not all legal outcomes are known or final. |
| 0:29.4 | Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. Now, here's your host, |
| 0:36.0 | Eric Squarsinski. Hey, everybody, welcome back, Eric Skwarzinski. |
| 0:40.2 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | I wanted to talk a little bit about purity culture today. |
| 0:48.9 | A purity culture is a topic that comes up on the show very, very often. |
| 0:59.5 | And I wanted to share a couple thoughts about it because there seems to be confusion when I post things like, quote, purity culture is rape culture. People tend to get a little bit freaked out by that, especially those who are still part of the Christian religion or independent federal |
| 1:03.9 | Baptist churches in general. So I want to talk a little bit about what I mean when I say purity |
| 1:08.4 | culture and what most my guests mean when they use that term. |
| 1:11.8 | So where the conversation about purity culture gets lost, I notice in a lot of comment threads |
| 1:16.5 | and on the comment sections of a lot of the videos I post and in reaction to the episodes that I |
| 1:20.4 | share on the podcast is people think that I am going after the topic of staying quote unquote |
| 1:26.1 | pure till marriage. |
| 1:31.2 | Now, that's a really loaded word, and there's a lot of baggage around the word purity, and you have pastors who talk in pretty horrible ways about women who are not pure in their eyes, |
| 1:39.1 | according to their religious beliefs. |
| 1:41.8 | Think of Paul Chapel in Lancaster Baptist Church several years ago |
| 1:45.0 | in the clip that got spread around quite a bit then. Whatever happened to the days when girls said, |
| 1:50.4 | I'm not going to be touched by every guy. I'm not going to walk down the aisle like a filthy |
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