Purity culture assigned women responsibility for controlling male sexual desire

Evidence

If men were created with nearly irrepressible, God-given sex drives, it was up to women to rein in men’s libidos. Wives were tasked with meeting husbands’ every sexual need, but it was the responsibility of women and girls to avoid leading men who were not their husbands into temptation. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 389

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Male-centered erotic traditions blame women for being insatiable despite male-centered pacing — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 997; Medical authority has been used to condemn female sexual pleasure as decadence. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1383; Patriarchal religions purify woman of her stained nature through male-defined submission — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 170