The Psychology of Religious Trauma

Sometimes harmful ideas stick with you for decades

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I came up in the days of the True Love Waits movement. Consider yourself very fortunate if you have never heard of it.

In a nutshell, it was a misguided effort to encourage teenagers to save their virginity till marriage — virginity assumed to be heterosexual and cis-gendered.

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Recovering from Religion
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