Today, purity culture - a movement that emerged out of the ’80s and ’90s and included Harris’ book, the True Love Waits campaigns and hundreds of resources marketed to Christian young people - is widely criticized for its harmful impacts on women and men and also for its ineffectiveness at preventing evangelical teens and young adults from having premarital sex. I’m calling it Purity Culture 2.0, and there’s reason to be concerned about its resurgence. Purity culture lives on, and a new generation of influencers on social media as well as recent books are pushing it mainstream. On of his wildly popular book, “I Kissed Dating Goodbye,” Harris wrote, “Try looking up ‘dating’ in your Bible’s concordance. Sound familiar? It’s a take-two of Joshua Harris’ central message in 1997: Pursue a romantic relationship only for the purpose of marriage. In it, the young pastor said: “Dating - the word - is not in the Bible, but the concept of what we call dating is honestly practicing divorce.” In November, a TikTok clip of popular pastor Mike Todd talking about dating went viral on Twitter. Uploaded in September 2019, it’s been viewed more than 1.8 million times on YouTube. It’s a vlog about the first time they both had sex - on their wedding night. “Yeah, I was probably more excited,” Nate says, smiling boyishly at the camera. The couple are sitting on a couch with their living room in soft focus behind them. (RNS) - “Who was the most excited?” Nate asks Sutton, a beautiful woman with wavy brown hair.
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