The Purity Culture Recovery Guide The Shame-Free Sex Education You Deserve

Smith's approach to unraveling the harms of purity culture offers significant relief from a collection of post-purity resources that fail to fully detach from patriarchy, homophobia, and misogyny. As a trained and experienced sex educator, Smith provides the anatomy, social-emotional, and ethical lessons many adults who were raised in American evangelical communities never received. She is not interested in universal truths about human sexuality, but in helping people find a set of practices that allow each of us to cultivate a genuine relationship with our bodies and desires, regardless of our religious or spiritual leanings. Unlike current and former evangelicals whose work deconstructing purity culture is over-shadowed by their own projects in personal reclamation, Smith provides grounded expertise dedicated to the virtues of sexual pleasure and bodily autonomy.