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I Survived Purity Culture and Lived to Tell the Tale | EXHS #7

September 11, 2024 / 34:22

This episode covers Jacob Gooden's experiences with purity culture, sexual education, and the impact of religious beliefs on sexuality. He discusses his upbringing in a Christian homeschool environment, the teachings of purity culture, and the resulting feelings of guilt and shame surrounding sex.

Jacob shares his background, detailing his strong Christian upbringing, involvement in church activities, and eventual questioning of his faith. He explains how purity culture emphasizes abstinence and creates a complex relationship with sexuality, especially during puberty.

He provides examples of purity culture's effects, including the awkwardness of dating, strict dress codes, and the problematic analogies used to convey the value of women. Jacob reflects on his sexual education, which primarily came from his father, church events, and pornography.

Jacob discusses his transition to college, where he began dating and ultimately had premarital sex, leading to feelings of guilt and shame. He emphasizes the importance of consent and the need for better sexual education.

Throughout the episode, Jacob encourages listeners to educate themselves about sexuality and challenges the harmful narratives perpetuated by purity culture.

TLDR

Jacob Gooden discusses his experiences with purity culture and its impact on sexuality and self-worth.

Episode

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welcome back to the ex- homeschoolers Club I am of course your host Jacob Gooden and today it is just me myself
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and I that's right I'm doing a solo episode and uh you know this show I've
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talked a lot about my favorite things about homeschooling I've talked a lot about the positives and how I think that
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I think that is worth a try if you're thinking about it for your kids um but
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one of the things that we haven't highlighted so much on the show is the Bad and the Ugly and so I wanted to take
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an episode and talk about my the bad stuff um and it's going to be I'm going
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to be talking about purity culture and growing up in Purity culture now Purity culture is not exclusively a homeschool
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thing it's it's more of a Christian thing but because I was a Christian homeschool kid it's really hard to
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separate the two because a lot of my community we just existed inside of that same bubble
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together and um and yeah so I'm gonna I'm gonna share my experience with it
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now I will give a little bit of a trigger warning um I'm gonna be talking about sex I'm going to be talking about
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pornography I'm going to be talking about masturbation I'm going to be talking about um the downstairs area the
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swimsuit area the No No Square um so if that's something you don't want to hear
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me talk about I recommend skip today's episode it's okay I'll be back next week
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with another one or go listen to a past episode with one of my guests um but I felt like it was something important
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that I wanted to share and get off my chest all right so let's dive into it a
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little bit of understanding about me before we really kick it off and I wanted to share the brief overview of my
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Christian experience and where I sit today so you can kind of understand some context of like when I was in high
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school and a young kid going through this where I existed inside of Christianity so born and raised in a
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Christian household when I was a young kid I accepted Jesus into my heart got baptized around the age of 10 I want
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to say um and then I served and worshiped and you know uh was at churches up until my early 20s um and uh
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I was part of a youth group I was part of a worship team I would set chairs up I'd tear chairs down I did the sound
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system when I was in college I served at a brand new church that literally didn't
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even have its own building so we would go build the whole church in the morning you know get up at the crack of dawn on
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a Sunday go build this whole thing run events at the thing uh serve on the worship team tear it all down after the
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fact um I also went to a Christian college and so we had Chapel we were required to go to some Chapel every
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single week and so there was a point in my life where I was going to church like
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things 5 to seven days a week um on top of that reading my Bible um listening to
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worship music like praying all that all that Stu stuff I was very much in it very thick and I truly believed in
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God uh Flash Forward a little bit after college and I started to kind of question my faith a little bit I had
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there were some things that happened in college um that I started to wake up to some ideas
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that and be open to the idea that maybe I didn't 100% know everything um and so
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I started asking questions and I got really interested in in pursuing more knowledge and ultimately it led me to a
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place of being uh agnostic so that's where I sit currently and uh what that means for me is that I'm open to the
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idea that there is a God I'm also open to the idea that there isn't a God and
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um and I'm okay with just not knowing right now and just asking questions and
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seeking answers so that's where I sit currently I know that's a very brief
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overview and not a ton of detail there um if you want to hear more about that I'm happy to share about it um but yeah
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so Purity culture growing up in it very thick in the Christian environment when I was in high school and going through
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puberty things like that so what is Purity culture if you're not familiar with Purity culture Purity culture is
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this idea of like an abstinence only teaching within the church um so sex is sex before marriage wrong things like
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pornography wrong masturbation wrong dating wrong um courtship okay um there was also kind of these underlying things
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in there and I'll get into some of the specifics of like what it looked like
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played out a little bit more um but yeah it was just kind of this like anything sexual before you're married wrong
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sinful need to be repented of um and uh you know when you're going through puberty everything is sexual even when
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you don't want it to be and that's just your hormone right your hormones are
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kicking in you're growing body hair well as a guy you're growing body hair uh
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you're starting to smell more your popping boners left and right because well Gus the wind turns you on um kind
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of a thing and so it's very tricky area to navigate you already just feel awkward and weird and then you've got
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your parents coming in there and telling you things about like the birds and the
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bees and you know but then pushing kind of this idea of Purity culture right and
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putting you in an environment where that's being taught and so you're going
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along with it um because you know that's what you think is right so let me give
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you an exam a couple examples of like Purity culture played out a little bit for me
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so Purity culture for guys was primarily this idea of like do not look at pornography and do not
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masturbate um I feel like that was the big emphasis of like do not do these things they are wrong uh they are sinful
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they degrade you as a man um and that kind of a thing that being said a lot of us watch porn myself included but then
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some of the other smaller ways that things like this played out inside of the homeschool Community was things like
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um forward phasing hugs not a reality between the opposite Sexes right uh a lot of us did like the Christian awkward
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side hug thing and uh some of us still do it to this day I'm guilty of that sometimes as well still it's just kind
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of burned in my brain um there was kind of this concept of like boys are blue girls are red together they make purple
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at a lot of our events and things like that we don't make purple okay so uh so
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there's that uh there's also like no there wasn't a lot of dating within our
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group as well um there was a few courtships but yeah a lot of us didn't date each other um because it was just
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we were all friends right we were and I think we were just a lot of us were also
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just being told well you guys are all friends like and I mean I know I was told this by people it's like well why
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would you want to ruin friendships by like potentially dating somebody and then you break up and then you just ruin
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it for everybody right um because we all know that when people break up then they
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just can't get along ever again this was something that was played out again
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inside of The Homeschool Group I know for for the girls um I've had a couple
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people on now who've talked about this but I like the home school dances there
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was dress code for the girls that kind of a thing growing up in southern California when we go to the beach a lot
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of the girls that we grow up with they wee one piece bathing suits shorts a tankini um uh I knew a lot of girls who
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made their own bathing suits um and uh things like that and so but for us guys it was a lot easier just wear board
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shorts not a big deal um move on forget about it so a lot of my sexual education my
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sexual education comes from three places okay my sexual education comes from my dad
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giving me the birds and the Beast talk and I think he gave me maybe two or three of these chats so there's the
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initial one right of like your body is changing um and also like you know here's how procreation Works um and I
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don't remember him being very explicit about it um I don't think he did a bad job I don't think he did a
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good job I think he just did a medium job sorry Dad um but I think he also was uncomfortable talking about it and so I
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think he just wrestled with how to do it um second place my sex education came from was the church um and my church did
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these things called Pur conferences and at these Pur conferences they were usually a day I think they were a day
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maybe two at the max but um it was essentially a time where it was speakers from within the church telling us how
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sex before marriage was wrong you should should um if you do that you need to repent cuz it's sinful um watching
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pornography was wrong masturbation was wrong sinful God hated that kind of stuff and backing all this up with Bible
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verses that sometimes were just taken out of context other times not but um yeah and then being put in an
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environment too where we're also be being told as men we have a responsibility to the women to keep them
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pure and then the women they have a responsibility to keep the men pure right and so it's kind of this just like
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weird circle of like you're kind of responsible for yourself but you're also responsible for
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other people um and uh yeah and then during that you do a breakout session and in that breakout session it's guys
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and girls separated different parts of the the building and I remember for the guys we talked about there's two main
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things that we talked about there was the creating an accountability group what an accountability group was
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supposed to do was hold you accountable for when you started to go down a sinful
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path regardless if it was sexual or not however teenage boys everything is like sexually charged
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right and so a lot of times it was just us kind of being like Oh watch porn again oh had a you know lustful thought
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after somebody oh which you know and then basically us then telling each other well you need to pray about that
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you need to read your Bible and you need to repent um again coming from a place of like boys who are the same age being
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accountable to each other to do what exactly we're all on the same page of like none of us know
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any better than the other people so um so yeah so aside from just telling our friends that well you need to read your
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Bible and pray more what other advice are we supposed to give them because I'm
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struggling with the same thing struggling with the same thing so accountability groups and like I said
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they were more than just sexual sin it also had to do with you know other sins lying
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cheating the whole gamut of anything right um this the second thing that we were kind of emphas that was emphasized
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at that was kind of this like the worth of a woman right and how to find a Godly
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woman and what to be looking for right um there's like the Psalm 23 eight woman something like that
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someone's going to correct me forgive me I haven't read the Bible in a couple
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years um and it's this passage in Scripture that basically outlines like what a
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Godly woman looks like um and it's used for everything and like I don't know there there's a whole
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gamut dudes use this as an example of like this is the kind of woman I'm looking for in my life um so we're told
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kind of what to be looking for in a in a woman and a wife in a potential man and then we're given this example and to
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this day this example still weirds me out grosses me out it's still confusing to me a little bit um
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but basically it's the example of an apple pie so a guy brings out an apple pie sets it on the table asks everyone
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uh who wants a slice of apple pie almost every hand in the room goes up because who doesn't love apple pie he takes his
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index finger he puts it in the middle of the pie pulls it out asks again who wants a slice of apple pie and a few
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hands go down but most people are okay with it right we know this guy we're like okay his hands are clean he's you
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know he's it's okay he just you know I can eat around it uh he then takes three
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fingers puts him in the pie pulls him out ask the same thing more hands are going down there's still people who are
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like I could eat around it I could you know whatever it's not a big deal he then takes his hand starts to like
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crumble up the pie now it doesn't look like a pie anymore it looks more like an
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apple crumble and he has again and now hands are coming down right it's maybe
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50/50 shot who wants it kind of a thing and uh yeah cuz we're like even if his
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hands are clean like he touched everything at this point in this pie then he spits in the pie and asks again
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and mixes it in so he spits in the pie takes his ant mixes it up disgusting then he asks again who wants a slice of
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apple pie and at this point there's like the one dude who's like I'd still eat it
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um but pretty much everyone's hands are down and this example was meant to exemplify
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the different like going to different bases almost with a woman um and then her value associated with those right
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and so the regular beginning apple pie that everyone was like yeah little a slice of that that is like a virgin
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that's a a Godly woman right that's the everything you know that we want okay
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putting the the first finger in he kind of alluded to that being like handholding you know it's you know not
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that destructive doesn't value the pie that much right couple more you know sticking three fingers in was like okay
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we're starting to getting kissing territory uh you know a little more touching maybe More Hugging kind of a
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thing so again it's like a lot of people were still okay with it we're like I
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could eat around that kind of a thing but she's starting to like be this used
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up thing then you get to the third one and it's like okay now we're talking
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about like heavy petting and like make out sessions right and um you know and more and more people are like I don't
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know I don't feel comfortable with this as much and then the final one is like
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premarital sex right a girl who's had premarital sex is just like just this disgusting apple pie
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that's been spit in now we're also being told that that's kind of like well he
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used it to represent women there also was a slight lean towards like this is also you right as a man your value goes
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down uh because there's this kind of there's this gold standard you get the
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crown if you stay a virgin till literally your wedding night kind of a thing and so but it's not emphasized as
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heavily as it is that like women who do these things are worthless right they um and as someone who grew up with
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family members who had had kids out of wedlock obviously had had premarital sex I had never looked at them as like a
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worthless crumbled up spit in apple pie um and even after that I don't feel like
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I I looked at them that way I still looked at them as people um with value but it was just this weird in the
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back of your brain kind of view of like how people are and and that's not to say
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that I never judged anybody I knew people who had premarital sex and who were yeah
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maybe more affectionate with their boyfriends or whatever and yeah there is kind of a weird within Christianity
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there's kind of this weird like well well you're okay with doing that but
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that like lowers your value so it definitely impacted me let's just say that and so and this is these are
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the types of things we were being taught so so to walk away from that day it's
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weird to then go back into a room with all these girls and be looking at them like okay so these are all pies and at
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that point we don't know a lot of them and their sexual sin um and so looking at them is like these
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whole pies it's just I don't know it's kind of weird weird analogy and um for
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anybody who was at one of these things or remembers this kind of thing or if you were a girl um at one of these
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things please like reach out to me because I want to know what happened in the girl side of things um and hear kind
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of the conversations that were happening back there because because I just don't know I just
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know what happened in the guy side and um so that was kind of again sex ad number two right sex ad number three
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came from pornography because even though pornography was wrong and sinful you still have questions right I
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still had questions well why was I getting a boner okay what you know you know what do boobs look like what does a
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vagina look like um all those kinds of things and there's really I don't want
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to say there's only one way to find that out um but it felt like at the time
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there was only one way to find that out and if you Google boobs what's going to
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come up a link to Pornhub um there's also a danger associated with it right it's like oh you know it's bad
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um you want to be a bad kid whatever but yeah so sex ed my third area that I got
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sex sexual ucation from was pornography not very healthy because it's a fantasy it's not reality and so
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and that's going to come into play a little bit later in my life too uh but so in addition to getting an education
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from that I also then felt a lot of shame because I knew I was doing something that was considered wrong um
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and usually with looking at pornography it wasn't just a like oh I wonder what
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this is like it's also a I wonder what this is like and then getting turned on
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while watching and ending up masturbating right and so there's like double shame associated with it and I
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know it's wrong and then that leads to I meet with my accountability group and
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they're telling me you need to pray harder and you need to whatever and it's
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like it's a giant circle jerk at some point right so let's flush forward a little bit so
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again we talked about high school didn't date anybody a lot of my friends didn't
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date people um so there wasn't a lot of like sexual anything you know and um so
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there was no opportunity to have kind of this like oh I have a girlfriend oh I know what kissing's like or anything
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like that I got to college and it was like all bets are off I was like I can date anybody I want I can make out with
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somebody I can you know um I wasn't necessarily thinking along the lines of like oh I can have sex with somebody um
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because I still had this in my brain that I was like no I'm going to stay a virgin till I'm married
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um mentality but I definitely went into it a lot more with like okay now I'm
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going to date somebody and I'm GNA like find a partner kind of a thing even if
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it's just for fun um and uh yeah and I've only ever had like two relationships one of them was very much
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like surface level dating we went out a couple times liked each other it didn't
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work out um and then I dated my wife my now wife and both times I realized that I was really scared I was really
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scared of dating I was really scared of anything that was like remotely sexual because even the idea of dating was
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still well I didn't have people telling me like oh you have to like um you're
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going to be doing this like chaperoned um not dating but um courtship type of situation I still had in my brain that
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it's like well I want to date someone with the intention that I'm going to
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marry this person and that's That's Heavy that's a lot to put on an 18
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19-year-old kid right um cuz there's a lot of life left to live and um so I kind of went into it with that and then
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also with the the understanding that I was like okay I don't want to have sex
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till I'm married I'm okay like holding hands I'm okay kissing um I was
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comfortable with those things but yeah so I started dating my wife my now wife and there was a lot of things that just
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were like hard for me it was hard for me to kiss her the first time because it was just
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like I I didn't know what I was doing one but also I felt like I was maybe taking advantage
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of this person right and I was like devaluing them in some way and thankfully we'll talk about this near
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the end of the episode but thankfully I had had some consent education and so I understood that like before I kissed her
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I was like can I kiss you um kind of thing but uh but yeah I just felt really weird
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about it I liked it I liked kissing her but I just felt awkward about it and like I was like maybe I'm devaluing this
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person I didn't feel really any shame around it um but it felt weird well one
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thing leads to another and ultimately we ended up having sex premarital sex and um
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afterwards I remember just feeling this wave of like guilt and shame and disgust
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in myself and like I had ruined somebody and I was and I had ruined myself and there was a part of me that
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was like I don't give a [ __ ] like whatever and then there's a part of me
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that's like oh no like if I'm not if I don't end up with this person I've devalued myself
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and will somebody ever want me will someone ever want her um because you know we're no longer virgins
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right and there's no going back um and so that continued like we started to have a sex life and it still and I
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wasn't communicating this to my partner I was just like we were having sex and
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then these were just emotions that were running through my brain after the fact of just this like guilt and shame and
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disgusted myself and it took a really long time including even after we were married of just like having to battle
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this and I'll get a little bit into like what changed for me but but yeah so
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there was definitely this like don't do this it also didn't help I went to a
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Christian college and we had signed lifestyle agreements and in that lifestyle agreement you agreed to not
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have premarital sex I don't know how they I don't know I don't know how
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they were going to like uphold any of this I knew plenty of people in college who had sex um and broke pretty much
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every rule in that book uh but yeah kind of a weird thing as well you know and but
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again even my accountability group that I had in college with dudes again when we were going to each other and saying
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oh yeah I'm still you know watching porn or I'm still whatever there was this
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still kind of like well just pray about it be better about it you know and these
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were dudes who were not homeschooled these were just dudes who were other Christian dudes from all over the
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country and so again I still felt like I'm a porn addict cuz I watch it CU I
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jerk off to it um and then I started having sex and I was like now I'm also like I'm a filthy [ __ ] basically I was
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like I am valueless at this point and and I have devalued this other person so that being
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said the these things kind of these feelings these emotions kind of continued and so even after I left
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Christianity when I was about 22 is 23 um I still there was still this weird guilt and and even to this day I think
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sometimes when I talk about certain things that are sexual I think it's hard
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because it was again we didn't talk about this as kids we didn't talk about
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this with parents didn't talk about this with religious leaders didn't talk about
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this with anybody it was just like figure it out for yourself um and so so even after I left Christianity I
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still wrestled with these feelings of like guilt and shame Associated around sex and so
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but I was like I knew I knew in my brain that I was like this isn't normal and I
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shouldn't be experiencing this and so I I was like I got to I got to do something what really sent me over the
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edge and this is me getting very vulnerable with you guys was that I started to have
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some uh erectile issues and I was having trouble maintaining an erection or even
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getting an erection whether it was with a partner or solo and that was scary because I was like oh
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no I'm going to be I'm going to have to take the little blue pill um uh Viagra
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for anybody who doesn't know what that is um and I was like I don't want to do
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that I'm like in my 20s I should still be still be good um and so I started to
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to educate myself on like how this stuff works and um and started to also be like
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okay I think these feelings of like I also because I was leaving religion I also felt a lot of Shame and a lot of
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guilt around I'm leaving and I felt this pressure that I was disappointing my
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family I was disappointing my friends um that my parents friends were going to look down on them because they had a kid
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who walked away right and there's that Bible verse the famous bible verse that
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train up a child in the way he should go and when he's old he will not depart
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from it and so there was there was a lot of factors right that were just bigger than even like sexual factors in this
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whole thing um but I started to educate myself so what happened well uh I listened to this podcast called ear
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biscuits yeah ear biscuits uh with Rett link from good mythical morning if you're not familiar with them love them
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I've watched them since I was a kid and um they are two former Christians who
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are yeah no longer Christians and but they so aside from listening them because they tell great stories and they
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had shared share their leaving religion stories which is again how I kind of got
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tied back into their podcast they did a month in it was September and they renamed it sextember and they talked
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about their sex lives and they had a sex expert come on there and share about the guilt associated with sex
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because they were telling their they were telling their stories of like saving themselves from marriage and the
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guilt and the shame they felt when they would like have a make out session with their like fiance um who became their
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wives and and I was like okay this This Woman's on to something so I started
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listening to her podcast her podcast is called sex with Emily it's a great podcast highly encourage people to
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listen to it she talks about whole gambut of everything having to do with the Kink um uh the kink like following
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to uh sexual performance to female male pleasure toys all anything and everything you could ever imagine right
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relationship types all that kind of stuff so very very interesting so I started listening to her and and then
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she recommended a couple books and I read a couple books and or listen to a couple books
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and I just started going down this pathway of seeking out answers to the questions I had and uh and slowly but
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surely my guilt and my shame started to go away and well I won't say it's 100%
00:28:22
always gone um I do think that it helped because I started to wake up to the fact
00:28:27
that a lot of the things that I had been told with this whole Purity culture movement was
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just was based and birthed out of this place of like wanting to teach abstinence only sex education um and
00:28:46
parents essentially being lazy and not wanting to actually like have real conversations with their kids and so it
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made me feel better about myself because I was like okay well there's people who push back on this
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famously the guy who authored the book I kiss Dating Goodbye which is a huge like
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basically the handbook for like what courtship looks like um he has famously like denounced that book and said that
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that was like [ __ ] um and so things like that were starting to happen in that like late 2010s um when when I was
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kind of going through a lot of this stuff and so I bring all that up to say that it's just like
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educate yourself please and thank you um because I don't think a lot of us got
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the proper education when it came to sex when it came to pornography when it came
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to uh a pleasure for either of our partners um I think a lot of what we've learned especially for us guys comes
00:29:50
from pornography and that is unfortunately a fantasy it's not real it's make believe and um
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um you know my stances on a lot of stuff have changed over the years my stance on sex before marriage changed um
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you know I believe that sex should be between two people that love each other um I believe that pornography is not
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inherently evil I think that there's evil pornography um and unethical pornography I think there's also ethical
00:30:24
pornography um I think that masturbation saves lives um and what do I mean by that I think
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that it offers an outlet and a release for people who are sexually frustrated and born out of sexual frustration
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sometimes comes really nasty stuff um and so that ability to release that and get that dopamine hit um I think can be
00:30:47
really beneficial to a lot of people um the other thing that I said I was going to bring up what is is uh consent
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education this is something that even now I'm learning a lot more about and I think that there is this idea
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within Christianity and within Purity culture that I mean I kind of talked about it
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when I got Mar when you get married sex is on the table and I think for a lot of
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guys there's this view that that means that I have my own personal porn star
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which is not true um and maybe for women it's true it it feel not not that it's true but maybe
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for women it also sometimes feels that way too but um you know sexual activity requires
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consent and there is no such thing as universal consent when it comes to marriage uh even if you are with a
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partner if your partner says no you it means no okay you don't own them and you
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don't owe um and they don't owe you anything okay so I say that because as
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someone who got most of his exx head from pornography pornography does not portray consent um at all it portrays
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like Universal consent that anything is on the table right vaginal sex anal sex oral sex hand jobs blowob anything
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anything is on the table any position that's just like not the case right um
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and so please for the love of God educate yourself on on consent um you know and
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know that no means no regardless male female they them um it doesn't matter who you are uh no means no um so yeah
00:32:33
that's my little soapbox there I don't think I missed anything I'm hoping I didn't miss anything um
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this might be a conversation that gets had again um maybe with other people maybe there'll be more things that get
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Unearthed for me as I continue growing as a as a human being um and I do hope that this was helpful
00:32:57
and inform formative um I don't know 100% why I felt really this need to put
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this out there and if you've ridden with me this long in this episode thank you
00:33:09
um if you have your own stuff you want to talk about whether you agree with me disagree with me whatever I don't care
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um I I welcome the the conversation okay and so there's two ways you can reach
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out to me you can reach out to me on Instagram at uh exhs club or you can email me at exh s [email protected]
00:33:29
um both those places uh I'm pretty active in there okay so um I would love to have a conversation with anybody and
00:33:38
everybody um I'm still open to learning um about things and I don't think I have
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it all right okay uh and uh yeah so with that I don't know where else to take
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this okay so I'm GNA end it there but thank you again for listening um and uh
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I'll see you next week all right peace [Music] [Music]

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Episode Highlights

  • Exploring Purity Culture
    Jacob dives into the complexities of growing up in purity culture, sharing personal experiences and insights.
    “Purity culture is not exclusively a homeschool thing.”
    @ 00m 40s
    September 11, 2024
  • Navigating Sexuality and Shame
    He reflects on the challenges of understanding sexuality amidst strict teachings.
    “It’s very tricky area to navigate.”
    @ 05m 16s
    September 11, 2024
  • The Accountability Group Dilemma
    Jacob discusses the dynamics of accountability groups and their impact on understanding sexuality.
    “It’s a giant circle jerk at some point.”
    @ 18m 36s
    September 11, 2024
  • Navigating Early Relationships
    The speaker reflects on the complexities of dating with the intention of marriage at a young age.
    “That's a lot to put on an 18, 19-year-old kid.”
    @ 20m 23s
    September 11, 2024
  • Guilt and Shame After Premarital Sex
    A candid discussion about the feelings of guilt and shame that followed premarital sex.
    “I felt this wave of guilt and shame and disgust in myself.”
    @ 21m 52s
    September 11, 2024
  • The Importance of Consent Education
    A powerful reminder about the necessity of consent in all sexual relationships.
    “No means no regardless of who you are.”
    @ 32m 20s
    September 11, 2024

Episode Quotes

  • Purity culture is not exclusively a homeschool thing.
    I Survived Purity Culture and Lived to Tell the Tale | EXHS #7
  • It’s very tricky area to navigate.
    I Survived Purity Culture and Lived to Tell the Tale | EXHS #7
  • I still had questions well why was I getting a boner?
    I Survived Purity Culture and Lived to Tell the Tale | EXHS #7
  • I felt like I was maybe taking advantage of this person.
    I Survived Purity Culture and Lived to Tell the Tale | EXHS #7
  • I had ruined somebody and I had ruined myself.
    I Survived Purity Culture and Lived to Tell the Tale | EXHS #7
  • No means no regardless of who you are.
    I Survived Purity Culture and Lived to Tell the Tale | EXHS #7

Key Moments

  • Solo Episode00:03
  • Trigger Warning01:03
  • Purity Culture Overview04:14
  • Sexual Education Sources07:58
  • Dating Fears19:52
  • Dating Intentions20:12
  • Guilt After Sex21:52
  • Consent Matters32:20

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