For safe keeping that is...
My favorite public event of the purity revolution: The Purity Ball.
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Aha yes, my absolute favorite aspect of the Purity Revolution! Thanks for these additional resources, so far I'd only had a couple hard-copy articles of it from Glamour magazine and the Economist.
Oh wow.
This is the first I have heard of these, and I am absolutely disgusted by this. I cannot believe this actually takes place, how does a dad protect his daughter's purity? Is this giving him the right to kill any of her boyfriends? I don't quite understand this concept. More importantly, these balls have to cost a very pretty penny. Couldn't these issues just be taken care of in the home and not at a ball? The money they spend on this extreme, disturbing event could be used for something MUCH more important like, AIDS research or sex education and not pledges to purity.
I'm still uberly disturbed by this whole concept.
I should take this opportunity to point out that purity balls have sometimes been sponsored by Wal*Mart and McDonald's.
I thought this was the weirdest/funniest thing I have ever seen. Why would any father want to talk to their own daughters when they are 10-11 years old about sex? Save it. Let them find out on their own and make their own choices in life. They shouldn't have to be like, "Oh, I'm gonna be pure, just for you daddy! You love me!" What a bunch of B.S. Do many of these girls even know what they are agreeing to? I agree with duste, that the money could definitely go to a more worthy cause.
But what social function is this serving? Is this a social movement and therefore a strategy of agitation? Or is this a strategy of control, a way to maintain the social order?
From USA Today:
'Across the country, growing numbers of conservative Christian evangelicals are staging just such gala affairs. They are called purity balls, and they celebrate the father-daughter bond. Tuxedo-clad dads promise to “war for” their daughters’ “purity,” as reported in February’s Glamour magazine. Daughters, in turn, vow abstinence until marriage. The fathers slip “purity rings” on the fingers of their misty-eyed daughters, the elegantly attired couples drift across the floor for a “first dance,” this one-on-one time with Dad is referred to as a “date,” and wedding cake is served for dessert. For post-dinner entertainment, a corps of adolescent ballerinas clad in white tulle performs a “ceremonial dance” to the song “Always Be Your Baby."'
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