How Writing Erotica Has Helped Me Heal From Purity Culture

Healing childhood wounds, one dirty piece of smut at a time.

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I was an adult before I realized that I was raised in a Southern Baptist cult. The type of Southern Baptists who the FBI is actively investigating.

Women are only meant to marry and have a family, and if they aren’t doing that, then they…