Purity Culture: What Went Right and Wrong

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

4.2 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Send a text Ep. 012 - When did Christians start talking about virginity and purity like it was the most important thing? When did sex become the big “no-no?” And how did purity culture become such a hot button issue? Kristen and Bethany both grew up in the height of the purity movement. Purity rings and true love waits were a part of their young adult years. They both had purity rings and both advocated for things like... saving your first kiss until marriage. Their insight on the issue of se...

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0:00.0	Today on the Girl Define Show we're talking about sex, purity, and the hot button topic of purity culture.
0:05.0	We're diving into our personal journey and what we got right and wrong.
0:08.0	What's up guys? It's Bethany and Kristen.
0:12.0	And we are the founders of Girl Defined
0:14.4	Ministries and I was actually chatting with some of you all on my personal
0:18.9	Instagram because believe it or not we are the founders of Girl girl to find but we're actually just two individual sisters as well.
0:25.2	Believe it or not.
0:26.2	Believe it or not we have our normal lives I guess.
0:29.2	Yes. Two normal sisters.
0:30.8	Two normal sisters.
0:31.8	Regular girls.
0:33.0	Kristen, you were actually gone out of town and so I was, you know, I don't know for some sometimes when you leave town I'm like,
0:39.2	ooh, get inspired to like get active on Instagram.
0:42.0	I don't know. What does that mean about me or I don't know what does that mean about me I know I feel like
0:44.7	when I leave town or when I'm like not working like off work then you get inspired you know because you
0:48.8	feel the way I know why because you're kind of bored because I'm gone so you're like
0:51.6	looking for something to do you
0:52.8	you miss me anyways so I was on my personal Instagram at Bethany dot beal and I was
0:59.1	chatting with you guys just doing like there's all these fun things on Instagram like
1:02.4	true or false or
1:03.2	ask me anything you know like whatever so I was doing one of those and somebody
1:08.3	said something about I don't know what but we got on the topic of purity culture and sex and purity and just everything to do with that and it was amazing because there was so much interaction over that one topic and so many of you
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