tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626292304461574111.post2196650767752636766..comments2023-12-27T19:24:48.254-05:00Comments on Tell me why the world is weird: Purity for the Sake of Purityperfectnumber628http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303683510076315803noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626292304461574111.post-30200003408064988422013-07-26T15:24:35.469-04:002013-07-26T15:24:35.469-04:00Would like to ask how a girl doesn't end up ma...Would like to ask how a girl doesn't end up married to a very deeply closeted gay man? Or vice versa? Not everyone knows their true feelings if they're so inexperienced in life. Looking at the relatively few potential young men in my friends' singles group, I now know that most that stayed pure had serious sexual or emotional hang ups.DavidaRochellenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626292304461574111.post-69775065358045849302013-02-09T15:12:51.113-05:002013-02-09T15:12:51.113-05:00Thanks! :)Thanks! :)perfectnumber628http://tellmewhytheworldisweird.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626292304461574111.post-87965866072042068872013-02-09T12:19:17.403-05:002013-02-09T12:19:17.403-05:00Great post! "Purity" can so easily becom...Great post! "Purity" can so easily become a buzzword that just means DON'T DO ALL THE THINGS!! Nice job unpacking that. Preach it! =)Rebekah Schulz-Jacksonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626292304461574111.post-19405588138325358542013-02-06T15:37:36.805-05:002013-02-06T15:37:36.805-05:00Yes! Exactly! Having a bunch of rules without an u...Yes! Exactly! Having a bunch of rules without an understanding of WHY the rules are there just leads to problems.perfectnumber628http://tellmewhytheworldisweird.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626292304461574111.post-64346672260967262102013-02-06T12:40:29.183-05:002013-02-06T12:40:29.183-05:00Another good reason to not go for purity for the s...Another good reason to not go for purity for the sake of purity: it's easier to avoid premarital sex (and we'll just let that be shorthand for whatever an individual feels should be on the list) if you're doing it for a reason, not just for the sake of not having sex. Purity culture gives a bunch of rules to follow. This leads to either a) people trying to circumvent the rules, or at least their spirit or b) people making the rules bigger and bigger to avoid problem a). If, however, people are given a spirit in which to live, then both of those problems become irrelevant, and we don't get distracted from the point.Christinenoreply@blogger.com