“Your body does not need to be fixed, because your body is not a problem. Your body is a person.” ~Jamie Lee Finch I was thirty years old when I realized that I was completely dissociated from my body.
I grew up in the height of the purity culture movement in American Evangelicalism. Purity culture was based on one primary concept: abstain from sex until marriage.
But the messaging went further than this. I sat next to my peers in youth group while the male pastor stood on stage and told us young women to always cover our bodies.
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