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Anna Rollins discusses her memoir and the impact of purity culture on women's bodies and desires.

Send us Fan Mail Anna Rollins grew up as the kind of girl who took her faith seriously — and that's exactly why it hurt her so much. In this conversation, Anna and I dig into her memoir Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl, where she traces how purity culture's messages about desire, self-denial, and the body quietly fueled decades of disordered eating, compulsive exercise, and sexual pain. What strikes me most is that Anna's parents were loving, her church wasn't overtly abu...

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Host: Sheila Gregoire

Guest: Anna Rollins

Topics covered

• purity culture
• disordered eating
• faith
• self-denial
• sexual pain
• memoir

Keywords

• purity culture
• disordered eating
• memoir
• faith
• self-denial
• sexual pain

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl

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