Books for Recovering from Purity Culture

For those raised in the church and under the thumb of purity culture, here are 12 books that can help you in your recovery of such harmful teachings, empowering you to reclaim back what is yours:

1. The Wisdom of Your Body by Hillary McBride
2. Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
3. My Sexual Values Workbook by Erica Smith
4. You Are Your Own by Jamie Lee Finch
5. Sensual Self by Ev'Yan Whitney
6. Check Your Baggage by Natasha Helfer Parker
7. Shameless by Nadia Bolz-Webber
8. Pure by Linda Kay Klein
9. Untamed by Glennon Doyle
10. Pussy by Regena Thomashauer
11. The Great Sex Rescue by Sheila Wray Gregoire
12. Sex, God, and the Conservative Church by Tina Schermer Sellers
13. The Ethical Slut by Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton
14. Wayward by Alice Greczyn
15. Church Too by Emily Joy Alison
16. Becoming Cliterate by Laurie Mintz

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