Good point about purity culture being just as sex-obsessed as the cultures it claims to oppose.
When proponents label others as hypocrites for objecting to harassment or molestation, I’m tempted to assume that they’re simply arguing in bad faith. But perhaps their ideology blinds them to alternatives. Is that giving them too much credit? They seem to believe that society’s purpose is not mutual benefit but control, and that sex is fundamentally a temptation instead of a means for mutual happiness. A very negative view of humanity.
Purity culture folks who imagine an alternative of complete sexual abandon, and insist that it devalues the individual, are probably projecting the misanthropy inherent in their own worldview. Similar to Catholic doctrine that assumes men can relate to women only as vessels for babies or vessels for satisfaction.
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When proponents label others as hypocrites for objecting to harassment or molestation, I’m tempted to assume that they’re simply arguing in bad faith. But perhaps their ideology blinds them to alternatives. Is that giving them too much credit? They seem to believe that society’s purpose is not mutual benefit but control, and that sex is fundamentally a temptation instead of a means for mutual happiness. A very negative view of humanity.
Purity culture folks who imagine an alternative of complete sexual abandon, and insist that it devalues the individual, are probably projecting the misanthropy inherent in their own worldview. Similar to Catholic doctrine that assumes men can relate to women only as vessels for babies or vessels for satisfaction.