Husband Stitch viscerally illustrates the lengths society and religion go to maintain the illusionary importance of female virtue. Common until recent decades, and still performed today is the husband stitch, an unnecessary additional stitch thrown in post delivery repairs, often without knowledge or consent; Women are given this procedure that causes them physical and emotional trauma in order prioritize the pleasure of their husbands. The floral imagery references the objectification of women I experienced growing up in a fundamental religion. Purity culture is a harmful movement where women’s virtue is often likened to a precious flower, that, with too much use, would wither and crumple, rendering the woman used up and worthless. In modern fundamentalism, women are often reduced to being the property of their male counterparts, existing only to produce, please, and serve men. The iridescent blue thread woven through, is symbolic of Virgin Mary and the supposedly pure intentions of this revirginization process. The husband stitch and similar atrocities are committed when we accept the belief that female bodily autonomy is to be outsourced to men, religion, and society. The word “Deliver”, was carefully selected to depict the expectations of women, especially within high-control religions. Women are expected to deliver, through birth, in the bedroom, as well as though fulfilment of sacrificial expectations. The beaded tassel is reminiscent of a used tampon to reference the extreme misconceptions fundamentalism purports regarding female sexuality, as tampons and other every day objects are forbidden lest they be used for female pleasure, which is seen as wicked and deceptive. This piece is ultimately concerned with the religious ideology that women belong to men more than to ourselves.