Kind of ironic though, as 25 years ago was the height of the evangelical, abstinence only, promise ring virginity fetishization and demonization of sexual content in the media. Now, the abstinence movement is largely dead, the evangelicals are a shadow of their former self, and sex is everywhere. Yet we got what the evangelicals were looking for, just not in the way they wanted it. Sort of a monkey’s paw curls situation for them.
Kind of ironic though, as 25 years ago was the height of the evangelical, abstinence only, promise ring virginity fetishization and demonization of sexual content in the media. Now, the abstinence movement is largely dead, the evangelicals are a shadow of their former self, and sex is everywhere. Yet we got what the evangelicals were looking for, just not in the way they wanted it. Sort of a monkey’s paw curls situation for them.