Citations:puriteen

English citations of puriteen

Noun: "(slang, derogatory) a teenager or young adult (especially an LGBT or LGBT-supportive member of Gen Z) whose views on sexuality are seen as sex-negative or moralistic"

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• 2021, EJ Dickson, "Are Sex-Negative ‘Puriteens’ Actually Taking Over the Internet?", Rolling Stone, 14 June 2021:

  What is somewhat new, however, is a claim shared by many on social media that the anti-kink at Pride stance is increasingly being touted by younger people, reflecting an emerging generational divide in the LGBTQ community. “Sorry to all the puriteens who will never know the unfettered joy of taking your top off inside the Stonewall Inn,” said one prominent activist on Twitter. “I hope you never know the pain of being beaten by a cop for standing up for queer rights.”

• 2021, Maddie Holden, "Gen Z Are 'Puriteens,' But Not For The Reasons You Think", GQ, 30 July 2021:

  Young puriteens have recently been seen on social media moralizing about large age gaps in adult relationships and partaking in the perennial “No Kink at Pride” debate.

• 2021, Victor Larsen, "'It Makes Me, A Minor, Uncomfortable': Media and Morality In Anti-Shippers' Policing of Online Fandom", thesis submitted to Ghent University, page 49:

  As the general image of anti-shippers is that they are predominantly teenagers, ‘puriteens’ became another name for them, a combination of puritan and teen.

• 2021, Charlotte Lytton, "The midlifers guide to Gen Z dating lingo", The Telegraph (UK), 18 September 2021:

  A fifth of 18- to 24-year-olds think a text conversation counts as a date, according to figures from Google, while the generation is reportedly less sexually inclined than their forebears, earning them the tag of ‘puriteens’.

• 2022, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, "When it comes to porn’s damaging effects, millennials and Gen Z feminists are united", The Guardian, 14 February 2022:

  They might be surprised, given the tone of some of the media coverage (including the claims that we view them as “puriteens”), to realise that, in examining the long-term impacts of porn, they have our support.

• 2022, Eva Wiseman, "What is driving the anti-sex backlash?", The Guardian, 24 April 2022:

  New Statesman columnist Louise Perry is publishing The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, which argues for “a new sexual culture built around dignity, virtue and restraint”. It is likely to find a hungry audience in the “puriteen” generation, so-called because it is turning its back on sex-positivity and, in some cases, sex itself.

• 2022, Rachelle Hampton, in Rachelle Hampton & Sarah Marshall, "What Everyone Gets Wrong About Gen Z and the Sex It’s Allegedly Not Having", Slate, 30 April 2022:

  That is kind of the crux of this entire Gen Z puriteen myth: people just have an idea that something is happening, but have no idea why. There are so many just conjectures flying around.

• 2022, Eleanor Halls, "This Is What The Sex Lives Of Gen Z-ers Are Actually Like", Vogue, 6 August 2022:

  As one Twitter user put it rather succinctly: “The concept of the ‘puriteen’ is the most insane and perverted moral panic ever. Hundreds of 35-year-olds on the internet freaking out because they think teenagers are insufficiently horny.”