How the Purity Movement Causes Symptoms of Sexual Abuse

By Tina Schermer Sellers
I put the paper down.  I was 15 papers in with 17 to go – sexual autobiography assignments of my graduate family therapy students. It was the second paper I had read in the last two hours of a young woman who had pelvic pain and vaginismus.  My stomach was in knots.  How many of these papers have I now read in my career?  She had been married three years and had been unable to have sex – it just hurt too much.  She was completely freaked out about sex and hated herself for it.

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