Purity culture is the name for a movement in evangelical churches that urged young people to save sex for marriage, and it was strongest in America in the 1990s and 2000s. Its signs were pledge cards, purity rings, purity balls and courtship in place of dating. Many raised in it now debate what it got right and what it harmed. Its best-known day came in Washington. On 29 July 1994, teenagers covered the National Mall in Washington with an estimated…

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