Purity Culture's Racist Fruit

he last ten years have seen an emergence of scholarship examining and interrogating the evangelical purity movement and purity culture in North America. 1 Though the term "purity movement" refers to a specific movement oriented towards adolescents in North America beginning in the 1990s, it is not unlike previous theological purity campaigns.Rooted in the sixteenth century Protestant Reformation, purity campaigns seek to convince adherents that Godly sex is permitted exclusively within heteronormative marriages between cis-gender people. 2 North American purity culture scholar and historian Sara Moslener has argued that purity campaigns often seem to arise when traditional Christian ideals of marriage, gender, and sexuality lose their hold in 1. See