A special offer to fill up my last PCD Queer Support Groups


Hello to everyone kind enough to invite me into your inbox! I'm in a promotional period with these support groups so thank you for your patience if that's not your jam.

The Purity Culture Dropout Queer Support Groups enrollment ends very soon.

I'd like to add a few members to the Thursday at 9pm ET group before we launch this week!

My proposal: if this date/ time works for you and you want to join this group but feel a financial strain, I will work with you on a price and payment plan that is comfortable.

Just email me back and we can work something out.

Same goes for the Monday at 8pm ET group that begins on Monday, January 12, 2026.

It doesn’t matter what letter of the LGBTQ+ umbrella you are, or whether you’re out or not.

Here's what some other folks had to say about their time in the PCD Queer Support Groups:

"I will give Erica a 10 page 5 star review of this course. DO IT."

"As someone coming out in my 30s AND raised as a conservative Christian, I was worried I wouldn't be able to find a community who really got it. Thanks to PCD, I now have a circle of people who I can trust to listen and support me about issues few other people would understand. Erica created a nonjudgmental space where we could talk about complicated feelings and share the kind of outrageous experiences that can only come from being raised in purity culture. I feel like my cohort are the siblings I never had, and joining the program is one of the best things I've ever done for myself (short of coming out)! Also, several times I laughed until I almost threw up, and it was awesome."

"I was going through a rough emotional time when I joined the group, and have come out of it feeling way more grounded in my decisions, my identity, and the people I surround myself with. I couldn’t have asked for a better group of people to spend those weeks working through stuff with (and then some, since we've all kept in touch!), and I will 100% be referring some of my friends to the program."

"Possibly nothing had a bigger impact on my personal growth in 2020 than Erica's Queer Support Group (and 2020 was a lot). It certainly had the biggest impact on my happiness, sense of belonging, and continued journey of self-discovery. Despite not having an evangelical background, I still grew up affected by purity culture and had zero exposure to queer-friendly sex education.

Not only did I learn a lot in a safe, welcoming, and educational environment expertly facilitated by Erica, but I formed deep, lifelong friendships with 8 incredibly fierce, intelligent, courageous, beautiful badass queers who I can't fucking wait to group hug someday soon."

xo

Erica

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Erica Smith, Sexuality Education and Consulting

I developed the Purity Culture Dropout™️ Program to help people learn all of the sex education that they missed growing up in purity culture- sex ed that is accurate, queer inclusive, trauma informed, compassionate, and comprehensive. I have worked with hundreds of people to help them learn about healthy sexuality after high control religion. Subscribe if you're curious about / invested in shame free sexuality education that's specifically tailored to the needs of people coming out of high control religions and purity culture. Expect information not just about healthy sexuality and upcoming programming, but also cultural commentary on sexual politics in the US. I'm a sex educator with 25 years of experience and I'm excited to share that with you.

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