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Letting Go Of Shame After Purity Culture

June 18, 2023

why are you crying? cartoon by nakedpastor david hayward

When it's drilled into your head that your body is not your own...

When it's reinforced over and over that sex is for making babies...

When you're continually reminded that you must never lose control...

When you're taught that you are not to indulge the flesh...

Etcetera...

Then no wonder so many people experience shame and guilt when they get caught up in the passion of love and sex and lose themselves to pleasure just for the fun of it! I hope these cartoons are helping to thaw the frigid ice of anti-human ideas and are helping you feel free to feel.