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Historically, the opposite of purity was often viewed and represented as evil. This was especially true if you happened to be a woman. Even the most chaste and abiding women in society could still be considered impure and able to contaminate or even poison others. While this stigma was not apparent in childhood, it would be attached upon menarche.