Podcast
Dismantling purity culture through honest conversations with friends, family, theologians, sex therapists, educators, and medical professionals - people who lived it, studied it, and are helping build a healthier way forward.
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Meet Your Host
Family nurse practitioner, writer, and founder of Purity Playlist. Megan blends clinical expertise, lived experience, and compassionate language to help people move beyond fear-based purity messaging and toward healthier, more honest conversations about faith, sexuality, and relationships.
Featured Interview
It's me, hi. I think the problem is actually purity culture. In this podcast, I do a deep dive into my experience with purity culture growing up, how it shaped my romantic relationships, view on sex, marriage, and faith, and the conversations I wish more people had sooner.
Coming Up
Licensed professional counselor and sex and family therapist Heidi Swartzmiller joins the podcast to explore the lasting effects of purity culture on relationships, identity, and sexuality, and what healing can look like when people replace shame with healthier language, education, and connection.
Coming Up
Maddy Thompson joins the podcast to share her journey of growing up in the Mormon church and eventually deconstructing both her faith and her understanding of sexuality. Together we talk about inherited beliefs, identity, and what it means to build a life that feels authentic.
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Award-winning sexuality educator Erica Smith joins the podcast for a candid conversation about purity culture, sexual shame, and the state of sex education in today's political climate, and why honest, evidence-based conversations about sexuality matter now more than ever.
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Kaila Alvarez joins the podcast for a conversation about women in the church, purity culture, and the ways harmful theology can stifle female leadership. Together we explore voice, belonging, and what reconciliation can look like inside faith communities.
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In this special episode, I sit down with my grandmother to talk about what it meant to become a young mother in the 1960s. Her story offers a glimpse into the cultural pressures women faced and the resilience it took to move forward.