The Purity Culture Recovery Guide: The Shame-Free Sex Education You Deserve

You deserve to understand your body, embrace your sexuality, and find joy without shame. For those raised in purity culture, messages about sex were rooted in fear, silence, and control.Virginity was prized above all else, sexual desire was condemned, and women, queer, and trans people were often left shrouded in shame.The results have been devastating: fear of intimacy, painful or unsatisfying sex, and a lingering sense of brokenness. In The Purity Culture Recovery Guide, sex educator Erica Smith-founder of the Purity Culture Dropout® program-offers the comprehensive, inclusive, and trauma-informed sex education many never received.Drawing on more than two decades of professional experience, Smith replaces shame with empathy, self-compassion, and empowerment.She provides medically accurate information about bodies, birth control, pleasure, communication, consent, and abortion, alongside affirming discussions of gender, sexuality, and relationships. Smith’s approach is both practical a