Surviving Purity Culture Mini-Series
Get access to interviews with experts and purity culture survivors.
You know how purity culture affects you, but maybe you wonder about others’ experiences. What was it like to be a Black woman growing up in purity culture? How did it feel as a queer person? Or what is the experience like if you are single, divorced, widowed, or coming out of an abusive marriage?
Introducing a new mini-series: Surviving Purity Culture.
This mini-series, shared on my Substack the weeks before and after my book release, includes full-length interviews with purity culture survivors and diverse experts.
For my book, Recovering from Purity Culture, I drew from psychological and historical research, my own personal experience, and case studies of dozens of my therapy and coaching clients. These stories from purity culture survivors illustrate the harm and healing from purity culture.
But I knew I still didn’t have the complete picture. My own experience is limited, and my clients, while diverse in their backgrounds, are mostly white, heterosexual women or married couples.
So I interviewed topical experts and several women whose experiences added to the diversity of examples in the book. These women spoke on topics such as purity culture’s effects on Black women, LGBTQ Christians, abuse survivors, women who are divorced or widowed, single women, and marital rape.
Each of these women’s stories are included in the book, but of course for length, many had to be edited down to just a quote or a paragraph.
For the Surviving Purity Culture Mini-Series, I will be sharing the full-length interviews, so the women's stories can speak for themselves1. I believe the more diverse voices we hear from, the more we can understand the myriad ways purity culture affects us and what healing looks like.
Here is a preview of the Surviving Purity Culture Mini-Series:
Experts:
Brittany Broaddus-Smith, a Christian sexologist: purity culture’s effects on Black women
Bridget Eileen Rivera, an activist and author: purity culture’s effects on queer Christians
Sarah McDugal, an advocate and coach: healing for abuse survivors, how to recognize unhealthy or abusive relationships
Survivors’ Stories:
“Carrie”: prolonged singleness
“Nicole”: divorce and marital rape
Emily: dating and reconstructing your sexual ethic after the death of your spouse
“Elizabeth”: dating and your sexual ethic after divorce
Alisha: abusive marriage and remarriage after divorce
Hanna: vaginismus in marriage
I can’t wait to share these interview transcripts with you so you can hear the women’s stories and expertise in their own words.
Want to get access to the Surviving Purity Culture Mini-Series?
In order to protect both the women’s stories and the material in my book, this mini-series will only be available to paid subscribers of my Substack or members of my launch team.
So, here are two ways to get access to the Mini-Series:
Become a paid subscriber of Walking the Middle Path for only $5 a month or $50 for the year. You’ll receive exclusive content and resources (such as this mini-series) and my gratitude for supporting my work.2
Join my launch team to help me spread the word about Recovering from Purity Culture. Learn more about the benefits of being a launch team member (including this free premium Substack subscription and live book club meetings with me!) and what we ask of you on my website. Applications are due September 15!
Become a paid subscriber or join the launch team today for this exclusive mini-series on Surviving Purity Culture.
Let’s find the path forward together,
Dr. Camden
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All interviews were edited and condensed for clarity, grammar, and relevance. These were recreated based on my notes from the interviews. Some names of the survivors were changed to protect their identity. All women consented for me to use their interviews in my book or other material.
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