Aaaaah! I just found out that on old school friend took his teenage daughter to a "Purity Ball" [View all]

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OMG OMG OMG I'm so creeped out.

So I'm sitting here eating my lunch, and I decide to do my monthly check of the facebook. And there it is. Pictures and everything. At first glance, you might think it looks like a nice formal father/daughter affair. But then you realize why these middle aged men were there with their young daughters...ewww.

Jeez, I knew he was very conservative but I did not expect this. I'm dumbstruck.



In case you don't know about the Purity Ball:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_ball

A purity ball is a formal dance event attended by fathers and their daughters which promotes virginity until marriage for teenage girls. Typically, daughters who attend make a virginity pledge to remain sexually abstinent until marriage. Fathers who attend promise to protect their young daughters' "purity of mind, body, and soul."[1] Proponents of these events contend that they encourage close and deeply affectionate relationships between fathers and daughters, thereby avoiding the premarital sexual activity that allegedly results when young women seek love through relationships with young men.[2] Critics assert that the balls promulgate messages encroaching upon women's freedom,[2] promote anti-feminist ideals, and ignore homosexuality.[3]

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Purity Balls have been criticized for promoting the notion that girls and their virginities are like property to be dominated by men, and that females are incapable of controlling their own desires. Writer and feminist Eve Ensler criticizes purity balls for implying that fathers, rather than young women themselves, have the freedom to control whether and with whom the young women engage in sexual intercourse.[2] Glamour claims that National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health data supports the conclusion that teenagers making virginity pledges, including those promulgated through purity balls, usually do not adhere to the required standard of chastity, and are less prepared to utilize safer sex precautions in mitigating the risks of sexual activity when it does occur. Furthermore, Glamour states that the percentage of teenagers in a given area who have made virginity pledges is positively correlated with the frequency with which sexually transmitted diseases occur.

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