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"Even if you don’t convince your date to live purely in his own life, that’s OK. It’s more important that you do what is right than it is for you to convince another. You should not have to play the chastity cop. In fact, both people in a relationship should be mutually accountable. The responsibility to blow the whistle should not rest entirely on

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Hrm. I agree with basically everything in the quote, and I agree with iampied's comment that "no one else has a right to pressure me to do anything with my body that I don't want to do" 100%, especially in the sexual context.

That said, I'm not sure I agree with "you do not owe your date a thirty-minute presentation on why chastity is important to you...If he does not accept a simple no, then he does not love you." I think our culture is so fucked up in this regard (thank you, modern media) that the shock of someone who says "no" can be huge. Writing someone off, someone you cared enough to date, even, because of that culture gap seems like a terrible waste, especially since in some sense that sort of response isn't purely the guy's fault; it's also the fault of the societal attitudes that have shaped him.