Good Men, Bad Sex: Why Purity Culture Is Still in Your Bedroom (Even If You Left the Church)

About this episode

The episode discusses the lingering effects of purity culture on men's sexuality, featuring insights from sexuality educator Erika Smith.

Send us Fan Mail You never signed a purity pledge. Maybe you never set foot in a church. But the rules got in anyway — through locker rooms, movies, the way women around you were talked about, the bodies that got shamed. And now they're in your bedroom, quietly wrecking everything. Today I'm talking with Erika Smith — award-winning sexuality educator, 25 years in the field, and creator of the Purity Culture Dropout program — about the specific ways purity culture shows up in men who consider ...

People in this episode

Host: Annette

Guest: Erika Smith

Topics covered

• purity culture
• sexuality education
• men's issues
• bedroom dynamics
• cultural impact

Keywords

• purity culture
• sexuality
• men
• bedroom
• cultural influence

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