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By Jessica Valenti

The us is keen about virginity — from the media to colleges to govt firms. In The Purity Myth Jessica Valenti argues that the country’s excessive specialise in chastity is destructive to younger women.

Through in-depth cultural and social research, Valenti unearths that robust messaging on either extremes — starting from abstinence curriculum to “Girls long gone Wild” infomercials — position a tender woman’s worthy totally on her sexuality. Morals are as a result associated basically to sexual habit, instead of values like honesty, kindness, and altruism. Valenti sheds gentle at the price — and hypocrisy — round the proposal that ladies stay virgin till they’re married by means of placing into context the historic query of purity, sleek abstinence-only schooling, pornography, and public punishments when you dare to have intercourse.

The Purity Myth offers a innovative argument that women and ladies are overly valued for his or her sexuality, in addition to options for a destiny and not using a destructive emphasis on virginity.

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But whether it’s training girls to be women before their time or expecting women to act and look like little girls, when youth is the most desirable sexual characteristic and girls are the most desirable sexual beings, all of us suffer. Pure Girls There’s no doubt that the sexualization of girls has hit a crisis point. You need look no further than something as simple as Halloween—long gone are the days of girls dressing up as ghosts, witches, or a beloved superhero. ) But we don’t sexify girls just one day a year; you * I’m not arguing that we should be paying more attention to one kind of sexualization than to another, but there’s a disturbing gap when it comes to which girls we’re more apt to hear about.

The Emotional/Physical Sex means Myth: Suffering Stepp’s Unhooked takes a more targeted look at girls “going wild,” choosing to focus on the supposed decline of dating. Arguing that hookup culture has dangerous emotional consequences for young women, Stepp uses every trick in the backlash book to shame women for having premarital sex. 19 During that time, some of the women hooked up and some were in more serious relationships, but instead of listening to the women she interviewed, Stepp pontificates about why they’re not happy and what they should be doing.

In her psychiatric practice, she has come to believe that women suffer more from sexual hook-ups than men do and wonders whether the hormone oxytocin is a factor. Oxytocin is released during childbirth and nursing to stimulate milk production and promote maternal attachment. ” 24 Ah, oxytocin—it’s the magical love drug that virginity-movement regulars cite as the reason young women should wait until marriage for sex. ” The short version? Too much sex equals no more love. ” 25) 54 the purity myth The Religious/Political Myth: Sex Has Consequences L a r g e r-T h a n -L if e Women are used to hearing about how having premarital or “casual” sex will harm them.

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