“Emotional Purity”?

Just because a person feels an attraction that will not culminate in marriage does not make those emotions impure. “Emotional purity” is therefore a bad term since it presupposes that there is something impure or wrong about these emotions, as if to have such feelings defiles a person in the same way as sexual promiscuity.

Robin Phillips, The Way of a Man With a Maid, pg.77

NOTE: “Emotional purity” is the buzz-phrase for Bill Gothard and others of his ilk which promote the “courtship”  and “betrothal” models rather than allowing dating.