"I think it's creating safe places for pedophiles to operate and get away with sexually abusing children and normalizing grooming and the sexualization of children into these sort of like patriarchal fetish content."

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"Purity culture is pedophile culture. ...

We know purity culture is bad and there's lots of discussion about all the ways it impacts people's sexuality and self-esteem and all that. And I'm saying, and here's another part."

~ D.L. Mayfield

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https://strongwilled.substack.com/p/podcast-purity-culture-is-pedophile

“'And guess what?' Mayfield wrote on social media on Sunday night. 'Jeffrey Epstein apparently thought so too.'”

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“'You say thx for advice but could have said … is there something i can do to express my appreciation?'

Epstein was arrested a few months after sending that text and charged with sex trafficking girls as young as 14. ...

D. L. Mayfield, a deconstructed evangelical author, argues Dobson and Focus on the Family created parenting materials that appealed to pedophiles."

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"He included a link to an online column where the founder of Focus on the Family told someone to adjust expectations for a father who had caused his family great pain.

Epstein followed up a few minutes later with a text chiding the woman he was talking to for not being grateful enough to offer him sexual favors.

'I suggest you learn to give,' he wrote late at night on May 20."

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