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Virginity lost : an intimate portrait of first sexual experiences
Carpenter, Laura M.
Paper Book
An intimate analysis of the first time Nervous, inexperienced, confused. For most, losing your virginity is one of life's most significant moments, always to be remembered. Of course, experiences vary, but Laura Carpenter asks: Is there an ideal way to lose it? What would constitute...
The purity myth : how America's obsession with virginity is hurting young women
Valenti, Jessica.
Paper Book
The United States is obsessed with virginity -- from the media to schools to government agencies. In The Purity Myth Jessica Valenti argues that the country's intense focus on chastity is damaging to young women. Through in-depth cultural and social analysis, Valenti reveals that powerful...
Purity and danger an analysis of concept of pollution and taboo
Douglas, Mary.
Ebook
Is cleanliness next to godliness? What does such a concept really mean? Why does it recur as a universal theme across all societies? And what are the implications for the unclean? In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of...
Regulating desire from the virtuous maiden to the purity princess
Ehrlich, J. Shoshanna
Ebook
Starting with the mid-nineteenth-century campaign by the American Female Moral Reform Society to criminalize seduction and moving forward to the late twentieth-century conservative effort to codify a national abstinence-only education policy, Regulating Desire explores the legal regulation of...
Chastity : a study in perception, ideals, opposition
Van Deusen, Nancy
Ebook
Chastity as a topic is an ideal interdisciplinary consideration since it accesses iconographical representation, the philosophical issues of purity, morality, and of innocence; the legal issues of loss and punishment, the historical issues of celibacy, and the legislation that topic evoked; as well...
Making chastity sexy : the rhetoric of evangelical abstinence campaigns
Gardner, Christine J.
Ebook
Even though they are immersed in sex-saturated society, millions of teens are pledging to remain virgins until their wedding night. How are evangelical Christians persuading young people to wait until marriage? Christine J. Gardner looks closely at the language of the chastity movement and...

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