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The Relationship between Purity Culture and Rape Myth Acceptance
Abstract
The current study investigated the relationship between purity culture, rape myth acceptance, and intrinsic religiosity in the Christian population. Specifically, this study explored if purity culture endorsement would be associated with increased rape myth acceptance and increased likelihood of incorrectly labeling rape. It was also examined whether intrinsic religiosity would ameliorate the relationship between purity culture and rape myth acceptance. Ninety-nine Christian men and women participated in this study. Results demonstrated that endorsement of purity culture was related to increased endorsement of rape myths and increased likelihood of labeling marital rape and acquaintance rape as consensual sex. Intrinsic religiosity was also found to be a significant moderator of the relationship between purity culture and rape myth acceptance. Overall, these findings have important implications for how purity culture is taught and understood, and how these teachings relate to the Christian population’s involvement in the cultural dialogue surrounding sexual assault.
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“Purity beliefs have been linked to rape myth acceptance, including victim-blaming, inaccurately equating marital and acquaintance rape with consensual sex, and normalizing women's oppression (Klement et al., 2022; Owens et al., 2021).”
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“results from the current investigation provide additional evidence that having some coverage of birth control may help attenuate purity beliefs, which have been linked to rape myth acceptance and sexual assault victim blaming (Klement et al., 2022; Owens et al., 2021).”
From Sex Education Among Recent High School Graduates (2025) · cites this paper as Owens et al., 2021
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“results from the current investigation provide additional evidence that having some coverage of birth control may help attenuate purity beliefs, which have been linked to rape myth acceptance and sexual assault victim blaming (Klement et al., 2022; Owens et al., 2021).”
From Sex Education Among Recent High School Graduates (2025) · cites this paper as Owens et al., 2021
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“Purity beliefs have been linked to rape myth acceptance, including victim-blaming, inaccurately equating marital and acquaintance rape with consensual sex, and normalizing women’s oppression (Klement et al., 2022; Owens et al., 2021).”
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- Authors
- Owens, B. C., Hall, M. E. L., & Anderson, T. L.
- Affiliations
- Biola University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Owens, Bretlyn C.
- Venue
- Journal of Psychology and Theology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2020-11-27
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 405-418
- ISSN
- 0091-6471 (ISSN-L)
- 2328-1162
- OpenAlex
- W3108149821
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 2
- FWCI
- 6.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Psychology and Theology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Keywords
- purity culture, rape myth acceptance, intrinsic religiosity, Christian religiosity, marital rape, acquaintance rape, sexual morality
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