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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so long as you've never had sex, you're a "good" (i.e. "moral) girl and therefore worthy of praise.

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