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STILL NOT

UNTOUCHED

Purity Culture is a traumatic experience that many peo-

ple within the American Christian Church go through.

This goes deeper than the enforcement of abstinence,

it is a set of teachings that deeply harms women and

men. This social project is meant to be a healing space

for those who are deconstructing the teachings of Purity

Culture and discovering their own personal belief sys-

tems. This project encourages introspection & healing.

he visual language used reflects the idea of deconstruc-

tion & reconstruction. The deliverables encourage per-

sonal and social healing.

STILL NOT UNTOUCHED

RESEARCH

This project required a lot of research to get an accurate

account of how Purity Culture affects people’s lives. I

found many articles telling people’s personal stories ,

as well as articles that were based on statistics. When

looking for similar campaigns, I found that Trojan did a

campaign to combat abstinence. This campaign played

on a metaphor often used to shame young people. I

also looked into the book Pure by Linda Kay Klein.

BRAINSTORMING

SKETCHES

THE WORKBOOK

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Faith and trauma have at least one thing in common: they’re rarely one-size-fits-all. Many people value religious beliefs on their healing journey, and many others find religious spaces to be sources of severe pain.1 Because both emerge and interactwith each other in different ways, it is important to explore the connection between religious trauma and purity culture.

If you are unfamiliar with purity culture, it can be briefly summarized as a subculture within Christian Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism, as well as other conservative groups like Mormonism, that can mirror rape culture in order to enforce sexual abstinence.

We have created this workbook as an outlet to process your spiritual construcion and how purity culture did not leave you untouched.

Fear is one of the major things that keeps people from starting the process of deconstruction. Fear of the unknown. Fear of rejection by your community.

For some people, there can be fear of losing work and, of course, depending on what exactly you’re questioning, fear of eternal damnation. That’s why many people’s process of decon- struction begins with an inciting incident—a personal earth- quake that shakes them loose from their moorings. Deconstruc- tion opens the door for an even deeper struggle with sadness.

There might be a sense of grief that comes along with de- construction. A lot of times, we have that sort of feeling that we only have one of two options, which is to either double down and pretend everything’s fine and stuff your questions down and your doubts and things where you feel like maybe it doesn’t add up or you feel like you don’t belong anymore.

In purity culture , both young men and women are taught that sex before marriage is wrong. But it’s teenage girls who end up most affected, Klein finds, because while boys are taught that their minds are a gateway to sin, women are taught that their bodies are. After years of being told that they’re responsible for not only their own purity, but the purity of the men and boys around them; and of associating sexual desire with depravity and shame those feelings often haunt women’s relationships with their bodies for a lifetime.

Though people experience purity culture in different environ- ments, the main teachings are the same. This results in a lot of common experiences accross a whole generation of people.

What is your personal experience with purity culture?

THE CARD DECK

What is one way

purity culture

has stayed with you?

What are some

lies that you think purity

culture teaches?

What is one

positive

takeaway you

gained from

the church?

What is one way

purity culture

has stayed with you?

THE SELF CARE KIT