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I agree with many commenters that some of your guilt likely comes from your background. I grew up in a Pentecostal context, too, and many evangelical churches are fairly uncritical of their ideas on sexuality. That includes an overbearing and outsized condemnation of certain sexual sins over others.
However, the rule of maintaining abstinence outside of marriage is biblically grounded. Multiple places in the Old and New Testaments, fornication is warned against in addition to adultery. (I Corinthians 6:18 and Hebrews 13:4 come to mind. I don’t know the Old Testament as well.) That the Church has affirmed it as a rule for life well-lived is also important.
That does not mean that marriage is the single criterion for sexual holiness, as commentors have noted. Sex is an image of the self-giving love of God, so it should likewise be a self-giving act. I try to make the phrase “prefer one another in love” from Romans 12 the mantra of my marriage (doesn’t make me great at it).
Lastly, my wife and I have found theologian Beth Felker-Jones’s “Faithful: A Theology of Sex” very helpful. It both challenges us to be holy and provides a more gracious perspective on sexual sin.