How Slut-Shaming and the Purity Myth Go Hand and Hand

Society conditions us to believe that women can be innocent or sexual but not both. Here’s how you might be perpetrating slut-shaming within yourself and other women.

Slut shaming begins before birth. If that sounds unbelievable, consider this anecdote from Raquel Savage, who is my guest on this week’s Modern Intimacy podcast.

“I had a former friend who had a daughter, and the daughter was like fresh out the vagina, and [the dad] bought a t-shirt that said something like, ‘I have a daughter, but I also have a shotgun,…