Your appearance on KevOnStage & MrsKevOnstage pod cast really blessed me! It was refreshing to learn I’m not alone in this quest to rid my mind of myths promised by purity.
Jess
August 18, 2022
Quizzes lack the nuance that makes it possible to demonstrate a healthy view of faith & sexuality. This exercise was pointless.
Hi Jess, you’re right that all quizzes do lack nuance! My quiz is meant to provoke thought and get you thinking about the myths and how you might still believe in them. So if it provoked thought, then it wasn’t pointless!
Chelsea Wilson
September 23, 2022
I just finished the quiz and checked agree with every question. Each question I read brought a memory of my experience in church youth group lessons.
Wow! Now I need to figure out how I want to teach my children.
Janella
August 2, 2024
I’m disappointed with the quiz. Whoever designed your website needs to fix the forward/back buttons.
And why do I have to give you my email address to get the results when I just gave you the email address to get the quiz?
Dr. Camden,
My wife and I are purity culture survivors. I have a memoir out to beta readers right now. It’s the 4th draft. Earlier drafts were self-helpy and weren’t very good. Partly because I’m not a therapist and partly because I’m a man, and purity culture disproportionately harms women. But through the drafts and pitching the book, I did come to understand that If I would write all of it and be 100% vulnerable – there might be a book worth reading there. This manuscript is written completely in-scene, which I had to learn how to do. Ha.
We’ll see.
During an earlier draft, I started a podcast with a buddy and talked about purity culture. We shot a sizzle for a documentary and are now developing it with Original Productions. It’s been a lot of fits and starts. We’ll see on that too. If it goes, I would like to put a producer in touch with you.
Good luck on the book! I see that Amazon will deliver it on October 15. I look forward to reading it. All the best, Ryan
Lydia Lange
November 18, 2024
I first answered the quiz from my current viewpoint. Then I went back and answered the questions from my 16–22-year-old self. All my answers changed, and I realized I still have a lot of internal work to do.
Dr. Camden, I’d love to sit with you and talk. If you’ll share an email, I’ll correspond.
I’m 86 years old. Ruth and I served as missionaries in Brazil for 32 years, 12 with Indians called Nambiquara and 20 in the city of Cuiaba. Thus, we’ve lived in 3 cultures. Our first term was the Wasusu Nambiquaras. They wore no clothes. Those years opened my mind, caused me to evaluate my theology.
I’m a conservative and Baptist in background. I’m too old for the purity teaching you are dealing with, but I’ve seen it.
I believe the Catholic church and puritanism have had a deep impact on our culture. The Bible says nothing about most of these topics. I really believe the nude Nambiquaras had a better attitude about sex than most, especially conservative Christian culture — puritanism. .
I took your advice and took the quiz as if I was still my younger, single self, in the middle of purity culture. I am leading a book study on your book, and hope to revisit the quiz at the end of the book to see how different the beliefs are.
Thankyou for this quiz, it really is very good tosee someone is challenging the status quo of purity culture, & the unbelievably unrealistic standards it is enforcing tohonour God with our bodies!
The Comments
Lyn
Your appearance on KevOnStage & MrsKevOnstage pod cast really blessed me! It was refreshing to learn I’m not alone in this quest to rid my mind of myths promised by purity.
Jess
Quizzes lack the nuance that makes it possible to demonstrate a healthy view of faith & sexuality. This exercise was pointless.
Dr. Camden
> JessHi Jess, you’re right that all quizzes do lack nuance! My quiz is meant to provoke thought and get you thinking about the myths and how you might still believe in them. So if it provoked thought, then it wasn’t pointless!
Chelsea Wilson
I just finished the quiz and checked agree with every question. Each question I read brought a memory of my experience in church youth group lessons.
Wow! Now I need to figure out how I want to teach my children.
Janella
I’m disappointed with the quiz. Whoever designed your website needs to fix the forward/back buttons.
And why do I have to give you my email address to get the results when I just gave you the email address to get the quiz?
Ryan
Dr. Camden,
My wife and I are purity culture survivors. I have a memoir out to beta readers right now. It’s the 4th draft. Earlier drafts were self-helpy and weren’t very good. Partly because I’m not a therapist and partly because I’m a man, and purity culture disproportionately harms women. But through the drafts and pitching the book, I did come to understand that If I would write all of it and be 100% vulnerable – there might be a book worth reading there. This manuscript is written completely in-scene, which I had to learn how to do. Ha.
We’ll see.
During an earlier draft, I started a podcast with a buddy and talked about purity culture. We shot a sizzle for a documentary and are now developing it with Original Productions. It’s been a lot of fits and starts. We’ll see on that too. If it goes, I would like to put a producer in touch with you.
Good luck on the book! I see that Amazon will deliver it on October 15. I look forward to reading it. All the best, Ryan
Lydia Lange
I first answered the quiz from my current viewpoint. Then I went back and answered the questions from my 16–22-year-old self. All my answers changed, and I realized I still have a lot of internal work to do.
Phillip Mosher
Dr. Camden, I’d love to sit with you and talk. If you’ll share an email, I’ll correspond.
I’m 86 years old. Ruth and I served as missionaries in Brazil for 32 years, 12 with Indians called Nambiquara and 20 in the city of Cuiaba. Thus, we’ve lived in 3 cultures. Our first term was the Wasusu Nambiquaras. They wore no clothes. Those years opened my mind, caused me to evaluate my theology.
I’m a conservative and Baptist in background. I’m too old for the purity teaching you are dealing with, but I’ve seen it.
I believe the Catholic church and puritanism have had a deep impact on our culture. The Bible says nothing about most of these topics. I really believe the nude Nambiquaras had a better attitude about sex than most, especially conservative Christian culture — puritanism. .
God bless — Phill (Phillip D. Mosher, Bradenton, FL) pr-mosher@hotmail.com
Angela Cabrera
I took your advice and took the quiz as if I was still my younger, single self, in the middle of purity culture. I am leading a book study on your book, and hope to revisit the quiz at the end of the book to see how different the beliefs are.
Greville constantine
Thankyou for this quiz, it really is very good tosee someone is challenging the status quo of purity culture, & the unbelievably unrealistic standards it is enforcing tohonour God with our bodies!