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The Girl Defined Show

How Purity Culture & Sex Education Failed Us Miserably with Kristen Miele

The Girl Defined Show

Bethany Beal and Kristen Clark

Religion & Spirituality, Christian Woman, Christian Girl, Girldefined, Womanhood, Christian Advice, Christian Teen, Society & Culture, Christian Dating, Christianity, Girl Defined

4.22.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Send a text Ep 097 - Purity culture gets a major bad rap amongst millennials who grew up in the church. I get that. Purity culture had some major pitfalls and did a lot of damage. But, what about public health sex education? What about the sex ed class you took in school? It's time to give both purity culture and sex ed their fair evaluation. In today's episode we are chatting with public health expert and founder of Sex Ed Reclaimed, Kristen Miele. She's been in the public health spa...

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0:00.0

Today on The Girl To Find Show, we are talking about the pitfalls of both purity culture and sex

0:05.4

education. Now, some of you may have grown up in purity culture and you're like, yeah, I can

0:10.3

totally see all the pitfalls of that. And some of you may have only had a conversation through

0:15.2

public health education from your school, some sort of sex ed class. Maybe you had both,

0:20.0

but either way, I think there are some serious pitfalls in both of those departments. And we are

0:24.5

bringing someone on who is not only a professional health expert, a sex ed expert who has been in

0:30.4

the public health space for many, many years, but she also has a great understanding of purity culture.

0:35.2

This incredible knowledge of both and she's going to bring to us what she thinks is the middle

0:39.8

option, the better option, the more biblical option to truly help us thrive in this area to help us

0:44.9

raise a generation of young people that understand God's good design and don't fall into either

0:51.2

pitfall. Let's go. What's up, sisterhood? It's Bethany here. And if you are thinking, okay, what is

0:59.5

this all about? So I'm actually interviewing an amazing lady named Kristen and she is the founder

1:04.2

of sex that reclaimed, but her wealth of knowledge about sexuality, about sex and just her perspective

1:10.7

is amazing. So we got into some of the nitty gritty details. I'm like, if I have her on, I need to

1:15.8

know about things that we as women deal with and why sometimes we feel so disconnected and awkward

1:21.3

about our own bodies, you know, even when it comes to things like periods or just how our bodies

1:25.4

operate intimacy within marriage. And she was incredible. I was like, I need to have her on for

1:29.8

another conversation where you all just ask me all the best questions that are super awkward,

1:33.9

that we think are awkward. And then we jump in and ask her all of our juicy questions. So she was

1:37.9

like, I'll totally do that. So I think I'm going to, I think I'm going to have her back on for that.

1:42.5

But we, we had such an incredible conversation. And if you are someone who's like, yes, I want to

1:48.2

take a deeper dive on God's amazing design for sex. I want to know like how to view intimacy,

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