Relationships
The Silent Struggle of Waiting: Rethinking Sex, Virginity, and Modern Relationships
The first Evie article I ever read was by Meghan Dillon, a piece on virginity shaming called “Virgin-Shaming Is The New Slut-Shaming, And It Needs To Stop,” and it resonated deeply with me.
By Simone Hanna4 min read
From a young age myself, regardless of religious views or surrounding peer activities, the idea of sex outside of marriage seemed very foreign and strange to me. I had always viewed sex simply as being one of the perks of marriage, something very intimate and sacred. The older I grew, the more it dawned on me how casual sex had become, not just in the ways it had been commodified as I’ve discussed on Evie previously, but generally in life.