As a Christian teenager within the Eighties, I had an eyewitness account of the rise of a clean culture. I went to a Baptist Christian school from seventh to ninth grade, and I remember well my frustration on the hypocrisy I saw there—namely, schoolgirls weren’t allowed to wear trousers, our skirts needed to cover the knees and touch the bottom once we knelt, and we needed to wear trousers of the identical length on gymnastics classes. On the opposite hand, male students had no such dress restrictions and were even allowed to take off their shirts during sports activities (which nearly all of them did frequently). When I asked the teacher why it wasn’t immodest for boys to go shirtless, I used to be labeled a troublemaker who clearly didn’t understand my place in a Christian home.
This one example illustrates how easily a clean culture can grow to be toxic – and why there have been a variety of backlash over the previous few years a couple of clean culture and the way toxic it has grow to be. While many of the purity culture itself is targeted on women and what our role needs to be, men even have a responsibility to eliminate the deadly nature related to sexual purity.
First, let’s establish what we mean by a clean culture. One author he defined it as “the view that a girl’s place and value in life is set solely by how she chooses to precise her sexuality, implying that her sexual ‘purity’ is her only value.” Toxic purity culture “is anything that adds or omits the whole content of God’s commandments regarding sex and sexuality.”
While women have fought to alter the harmful nature of a clean culture, men also needs to work to scale back the toxicity inherent in a clean culture. Here are six things men of all ages can do to redeem their sexual purity.
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