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By the time I was a teenager in the 2000s, the notion of waiting until marriage to have sex was considered outdated. Few of my peers practiced it, and the societal expectation was quite the opposite. I remember the tension I felt between what I believed and what everyone around me was doing, including some of my friends from church. Having been bullied in my early teens, I longed to fit in and be accepted. But to be a “cool” girl came with a cost.

In today’s sexual culture, young women who aren’t sexually active face immense cultural pressure to engage in casual sexual activity for fear of shame, judgment, or social exclusion. Casual sex is now the norm, and young women are fixated on “normal” and social inclusion. As a result, many feel somewhat coerced into the post-sexua

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