Peggy Payne

Peggy Payne is an author at Religion News Service.

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COMMENTARY: A new kind of virginity

By Peggy Payne — July 3, 2014
(RNS) The word virgin, in addition to its usual meaning, uses sexual inexperience as a metaphor for a state of being unviolated, untainted, innocent, clean. That association is damaging.

COMMENTARY: Allergic to sex? On book pulping and pursed lips

By Peggy Payne — February 17, 2014
(RNS) While the offended Hindu group has many objections to Wendy Doniger’s book, one of the main ones, according to Time magazine, is “the juxtaposition of sex and Hinduism.”
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