(The woman started wheezing and breaking out in welts and wound up in the ER.)įor Klein, the terror was enough that she broke up with her high-school boyfriend at the age of 16 because she was convinced it was God’s will. The message traumatized Klein and many of her peers, sparking fear, anxiety and, in the extreme case of one woman interviewed for the book, the symptoms of anaphylactic shock when she first had sex. This was largely presented as her problem, not theirs: It was made clear that she would be cast as a Jezebel - with her character corrupted - if she had sex before marriage. Growing up, she’d been told by pastors and church teachers that she was a “stumbling block” of temptation for boys and men. Klein signed her so-called “purity pledge” at a regional youth gathering in her native Wisconsin two years later, in 1994.
The writer, who works as a consultant in the nonprofit sector, became a born-again Christian at the age of 13, following in the footsteps of her mother. “I want to draw attention to the dangers of sexual shaming and purity teachings.” “The good girl/bad girl thing is our default way of thinking,” Klein said. Part memoir, part cultural commentary, it chronicles her complex relationship with religion and sex. Now 39 and living in Manhattan, Klein has written “ Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free” (Touchstone, out now). Although the culture largely consists of girls, boys do take part, including pop-star siblings Nick and Joe Jonas when they were younger. Hundreds of thousand of American teens have formally pledged to save themselves for marriage: attending purity balls where they often wear white dresses and are symbolically given to Jesus by their fathers, even accepting rings as vows of their sworn chastity. The first virginity-pledge program, True Love Waits, was started in 1993 by the Southern Baptist Convention and now claims more than 2.5 million pledgers worldwide. The excruciating worry was driven by her years growing up as an Evangelical in the Midwest in the late 1980s and early 1990s - and by the purity movement that continues to this day. “Deep down, I knew the result would be negative, but I wanted to be sure.” “I would feel so much tension and anxiety taking the tests,” Klein told The Post. It was one of many such tests Klein had undergone over the previous few years because of her fear of having a baby out of wedlock. Taylor Swift fans send random book to top of best seller listīefore Linda Kay Klein had a routine X-ray at the age of 23, she insisted the nurse gave her a pregnancy test so she would be “better safe than sorry.” Millennial women's secret sex habits revealed on TikTok These everyday items in your home are trying to kill you: new bookīody language expert reveals shocking findings about mom accused of killing hubby before writing book about grief
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