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- How I Radically Reclaimed My Body From The Religion That "Owned" It
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015
From birth, I was taught that my body — the very thing I live in — belonged to God. Not anymore.
But that’s not all.
Around the time puberty was supposed to hit, I was taught by the Mormon church to make decisions about my body with my future husband in mind. I was told to preserve my purity for him, to ask myself before crossing a line if my future husband would want a woman who had done such a thing, to imagine what it would be like to one day confess my sins to him, hoping he would want me anyway.