The Psychology of Religious Trauma
Sometimes harmful ideas stick with you for decades
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4 min readAug 31, 2020
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.