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Until I was knee deep in research for my doctoral dissertation, I primarily thought of grief as something connected to loss. Things like death, divorce, illness, and tragedy. The kinds of losses that clearly divide life into before and after.

But on
For many people raised in purity culture, desire was never presented as something to understand. It was presented as something to fear. Many people learned that attraction was dangerous and that arousal was evidence of temptation. They learned that c
Most women have complicated relationships with anger. 

Especially if they were raised in families, cultures, religions, or relationships where anger was discouraged, punished, or viewed as dangerous. As a result, many women become skilled at express
Purity culture does not only shape how people think about sex. It shapes how people think about love, worthiness, intimacy, belonging, and identity. So, for many queer individuals raised in high-control religion, love itself becomes associated with f
For many queer people raised in high-control religion, identity was not something that felt safe to explore openly. 

Areas like attraction, gender expression, curiosity, and desire were often met with fear, shame, punishment, or rejection.

So many

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