Does trying to live it fervently ultimately result in more frustration and failure?
Does it turn people in to "posers" wearing a religious mask of repression while they're horny as everyone else, yet pretending to possess internal strength they really don't have?
No. Yes. Yes. Yeah, I mean, this is how a person gets caught in a shame cycle, no? You're told forever that your body is sinful and sex is the worst of the worst things a person could do (outside of marriage), so when a kid has perfectly normal feelings they feel guilt and shame and must work it out with God themselves. Eventually the shame recedes, but then there's another perfectly normal feeling and it keeps going until the person, like you say, learns how tamp down their feelings and forms a religious mask that presents "piety" but is entirely constructed of "repression." I've found these are the people the most rigid about promoting the ideas of purity culture.
So here are some valid questions:
Can anyone truly live purity culture?
Does trying to live it fervently ultimately result in more frustration and failure?
Does it turn people in to "posers" wearing a religious mask of repression while they're horny as everyone else, yet pretending to possess internal strength they really don't have?
No. Yes. Yes. Yeah, I mean, this is how a person gets caught in a shame cycle, no? You're told forever that your body is sinful and sex is the worst of the worst things a person could do (outside of marriage), so when a kid has perfectly normal feelings they feel guilt and shame and must work it out with God themselves. Eventually the shame recedes, but then there's another perfectly normal feeling and it keeps going until the person, like you say, learns how tamp down their feelings and forms a religious mask that presents "piety" but is entirely constructed of "repression." I've found these are the people the most rigid about promoting the ideas of purity culture.