u/KingCoupons describes growing up in a Christian "Purity Culture" as a teenager.

"...I grew up in one of these "purity cultures," as a young man. I went to the "True Love Waits" banquet, in a suit and tie, and signed a certificate that guaranteed my virginity would be God's until it was my wife's. Even back then, in my early teenage years, it was really weird to me. I remember having conversations with my mom about just how odd it was that some of these fathers, men who often couldn't even keep their obsession with sex out of the Sunday school classroom, were somehow now supposed to be God's chosen protectors of the virginity of their sons and daughters..."
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