Unclean by Richard Beck

Elizabeth Smart, Mormon Girlhood, and Purity Standards

By Jana Riess — May 8, 2013
If virginity is the cornerstone of female power, as Sister Elaine Dalton suggests, then its surrender, whether willingly or by force, is the very definition of disempowerment and devaluation. As Elizabeth Smart put it, who wants a chewed-up piece of gum?
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