This week we talk to therapist, author, and podcaster, Janice Selbie. Scott and Priska saw an ad for the ⁠Shameless Sexuality conference ⁠and knew they had to talk to Janice about her story in which she went from the most conservative fundamentalist world to a sex-positive, religion-free life. The Pentecostal life wasn't restrictive enough for Janice, so she joined a local group of Mennonites where she did her best to fit in but was never fully accepted by the women there. Now, after an eventful deconstruction phase, Janice has created the ⁠Divorcing Religion organization⁠ (with a podcast Scott was a guest on) as well as the aforementioned Shameless Sexuality conference. Janice is also the author of ⁠Divorcing Religion: A Memoir and Survival Handbook. ⁠

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In stark contrast to last episode's rundown of Purity Culture's anti-fun, anti-connection, anti-humanity madness, we talk about more recent trends of people trying to remain pure while finding loopholes to avoid sinning. And just like most of christian culture and lifestyle these days, it's fucking confusing.

We're about 25 years late to this and about 7 years past Japanese American Joshua Harris denouncing his shitty book, but here we are. After ⁠Scott's Substack post⁠ about Harris had 4x as many reads as he has subscribers, we figured we should take a look back at why today's Christians are so damaged. A big part of it is purity culture. Scott never read the book, having slammed it shut after the first page, but poor Priska grew up in the height of the purity movement. And she has some feelings and thoughts.

CW- We don't pull any punches. This was one of the worst things we've ever read (Scott read it for this episode). The damage it did, the shit writing, and the lack of any cohesive arguments really just made us angry.

So buckle up. This one goes to 11.