these are just moments in the woods

But what virginity is, what it was, and how it’s used now to punish women and roll back their rights is at the core of the purity myth. Because today, in a world where porn culture and re-energized abstinence movements collide, the moral panic myth about young women’s supposed promiscuity is diverting attention from the real problem —- that women are still being judged (sometimes to death) on something that doesn’t really exist: virginity.