Quotes by Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

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..the hope I have for women: that we can start to see ourselves-and encourage men to see us-as more than just the sum of — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
Trusting women means also trusting them to find their way. This isn’t to say, of course, that I think women’s sexual cho — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
Trusting women means also trusting them to find their way. This isn’t to say, of course, that I think women’s sexual cho — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
Perhaps it’s true that in our sex-saturated culture it does take a certain amount of self-discipline to resist having se — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
As Feministing.com commenter electron-Blue noted in response to the 2008 New York Times Magazine article “Students of Vi — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet t — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
If being premenstrual is “innocence,” does that make those of us with periods guilty? And this really gets to the heart — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
I think virginity is fine, just as I think having sex is fine. I don't really care what women do sexually, and neither s — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
By erasing any nuance and complexity about porn and sexuality, the virginity movement gives young women only two choices — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's ac — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethi — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
If you spend any amount of time doing media analysis, it’s clear that the most frenzied moral panic surrounding young wo — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
As bell hooks wrote in a 1998 essay, "Naked Without Shame," about black women's bodies and politics, "Marked by shame, p — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women's morality means that nothing else matters- not what we accomplish, not what — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
By fetishizing youth and virginity, we're supporting a disturbing message: that really sexy women aren't women at all- t — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
Young women are not putting themselves in danger. The people around them are doing the real damage. Who? you might wonde — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
Antifeminists are the only ones who benefit from their version of working on women's behalf; in reality, they put other — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
What other movement has ensured that young women have the rights that they have today? Feminism is responsable not only — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
Young women are not putting themselves in danger. The people around them are doing the real damage. Who? you might wonde — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
Consider another abstinence product: a gold rose pin handed out in schools or at Christian youth events. The pin is atta — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women