“Growing up in a strict Pentecostal household, I was constantly lectured on the harm in treating ourselves and others as sexual objects. Your value as a woman, my mum would say, should not be based on your sexual appeal to men. My religious background has not influenced me to believe that one should wait until marriage to have sex but my mum’s words always resonate with me. Now, at the age of 24, I am simply waiting for a guy who values me for who I am.”
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