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Purity culture and the subjugation of women: Southern Baptist beliefs on sex and gender provide context to spa suspect's 'motive'

  • Written by Susan M. Shaw, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University
Purity culture and the subjugation of women: Southern Baptist beliefs on sex and gender provide context to spa suspect's 'motive'Southern Baptist purity culture teaches that women are to blame for men's sexual urges.AP Photo/Mike Stewart

Even before a member of a Southern Baptist church was accused of the Georgia spa massacre, motivated, he told police, by guilt over a “sex addiction,” the Southern Baptist Convention was under scrutiny over its teachings on...

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