This is important. I was raised like Elizabeth Smart. At 15, I was raped, and then I felt like nothing. Worse than nothing. I stopped caring about what happened to me. By 17, I was pregnant and ended up marrying an asshole. Lost the baby, stayed married, and thankfully went to college. Finally, after he tried to shoot…

The very fact that this entire discussion of "purity" is 99.9% about women and girls (and coming from men (even when it comes from other women)) tells you, by itself, that it's NOT about religion or purity or anything else but controlling women. Brava, Lindy!