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Preacher's Daughter: Sexual Violence and Discourses of "Purity"

Music post by Kristin Rawls, Submitted by Kristin Rawls on October 27, 2011 - 11:25am; tagged abstinence, abuse, child abuse, Christian, Christianity, conservative women, covers, domestic violence, Esperanza Spalding, Janelle Monáe, new pornographers, sexual abuse, shame, the raveonettes.

I have spent a lot of time thinking about the silliness of "True Love Waits"-style campaigns, but it never really occurred to me to think about how a child who has been raped might experience these shaming "abstinence-only" discourses. That is to say, this would be particularly cruel, painful, and potentially traumatic for such a child.

Potentially even worse than teen purity rallies, I think, are the "purity balls."

Consider the opening line of this local news video: "Would you pledge your virginity to your father?"

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BitchTapes: Creepy McCreeperson

Music post by Belin Liu, Submitted by Belin Liu on January 15, 2010 - 4:33pm; tagged beck, creepy, love, mix, pixies, the raveonettes, tom waits, violent femmes.

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