What does it mean to a Latter-day Saint young woman when she hears that virtue and chastity are ‘most dear and precious above all things?’ Purity Culture is a movement built on teachings of sexual abstinence before marriage, with the insidious slant that girls and women are responsible for not only their own purity, but that of boys and men.
Shame and guilt can be messages telling us what we are doing is inherently wrong.
Numerous studies have shown that chastity leads to longer and more satisfying marriages.