“It presents a very demeaning view of manhood,” said Rachael Denhollander, an evangelical advocate for sexual abuse victims. “It was so rarely about the men controlling their own desires, and so often about women not being temptresses,” Mr. Chu recalled. “Purity culture teaches young men to view young women who do not try to maintain modesty as sinister forces,” Dr. Onishi said. Mr. Long sought treatment for what he described to the police as a “sex addiction” at HopeQuest, an evangelical treatment center in Acworth, Ga., the city where one of the attacks took place. The center advertises its treatment of “sex addiction” and “pornography addiction” in addition to drugs, alcohol and gambling.

Source: New York Times March 20, 2021 14:37 UTC