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Jennifer Valenti's The Purity Myth

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The Purity Myth is defined by Jennifer Valenti in her novel as the socially created construct that surrounds women based on the premise that in the 21st century a woman’s worth is based on whether or not she is sexually active. On the same note a woman who is sexually active will fall for the Purity Myth because they are consistently being burdened by the fact that if you are a virgin it will make you pure and desirable but on the other hand if you are sexually active before marriage it will reduce her worth and make her considerably less advantageous. In the same way, the Madonna/Whore binary is based on the Freudian psychoanalytic theory and the distressing fact that the typical heterosexual male desires towards explicit sexual relations
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