Its impact, though, is global and ongoing. Purity culture was built on an established religious ethic: sexual abstinence until marriage. But it came to encompass a subculture in American ...

It was best known for the purity rings that girls wore as part of a pledge to their virginity to God and family. More than merely the value of forgoing sex until marriage, purity culture centers ...

From Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin Bieber to Ciara and Russell Wilson, these stars are all about no sex until "I do" Arturo Holmes/FilmMagic More celebrities abstain from sex before marriage ...

Getting out of bed, she stood before her dad as he got ... and teen girls who pledged to abstain from sex until marriage, or "purity pledges," are associated with higher rates of teen births ...

purity, and submission. Maybe the holy bond of husband and wife could erase all that had happened. “Marriage would help make it right,” she later told me. Her future in-laws gave her a ...