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Death, Sex & Money

I Wanted To Be A "Good Girl"

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.67.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Andrea grew up attending an evangelical church in Texas, where she was taught to abstain from sex until marriage and keep herself sexually "pure." That early sex education—and her decision to have premarital sex anyway—had long-lasting impact, well into her adulthood. This episode kicks off our month-long series called Our Sex (Mis)Educations. Find the entire series here. Do you have a photo that sums up a big workplace transition for you? We want to see it! Send it to [email protected] or put it on Instagram with the hashtag #dsmatwork. See the photos we've collected so far @deathsexmoney on Instagram. Sign up for our newsletter! Every Wednesday we send out podcast listening recommendations, fascinating letters from our inbox and updates about the show. We also let our subscribers know about upcoming live events and ways you can contribute your stories to Death, Sex & Money. Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. Want to tell us something? Email us any time at [email protected].

Transcript

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There's just like this sense, this feeling that they have way, like they're going to find out.

0:06.0

I mean, that's how I remember feeling is like, you can look at me and see that I'm having sex. This is death, sex, and money.

0:15.0

I think I'm in love with you.

0:19.0

You made his friends?

0:20.0

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

0:24.0

When do you want to die?

0:26.0

And need to talk about more.

0:28.0

So what are you going to do about money or someone?

0:30.0

I don't know, find a job.

0:32.0

I'm Anna Sale.

0:35.6

Andrea was in the sixth grade when she had her first sex ed talk like many sixth

0:40.0

graders but for her sex ed didn't happen at school. It happened at her church, an

0:45.5

evangelical congregation in Texas. It wasn't quite Pentecostal, but there was

0:50.5

definitely you know raising hands, dancing in the isles ribbon

0:55.8

dancers all kinds of things like that. What did you first learn about sex

1:00.4

through your church that you should not have it until you're married.

1:06.2

There would be discussions about it at youth group, you know, waiting until marriage and

1:10.9

what does that mean?

1:12.4

And you know, I also attended true love

1:15.1

weights conferences with my youth group. What did what was that conference like?

1:21.2

It was kind of like a rally about purity, you know, and what does it mean to wait until

1:26.8

marriage and you get a true love waits ring and you know you sign a pledge saying

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