"i will pledge my virginity to my father

[datasuspect]

and he will hold the gold key to my vagina until i get married"

tale of the ultra creepy.


reallllllllllll creepy.





At purity dances, virgin belles ring
These formal soirees for dads and daughters include dining, gowns and pledges to protect and abstain

By Dahleen Glanton | Tribune national correspondent
December 2, 2007

PEORIA — It was an evening for couples—girls in formal gowns, tiaras and curly updos, escorted by their dads, in tuxedos or dressy suits and ties.

They dined on roast beef and waltzed to classical music in a ballroom decorated with draped crosses and a mannequin in a white wedding gown. They listened as a guest speaker warned of the dangers of premarital sex. Then they stood at their tables, looked each other in the eye and vowed that they would remain pure.

He signed a pledge to be the protector of her purity and to live his own life with integrity. She gave her father a gold key to her heart, and asked him to hold on to it until her wedding day, when he would hand it over to her husband. They walked down the aisle with locked arms and she laid a white rose beside a cross, sealing her commitment.

"It's like I'm devoting my virginity to my dad, saying that I will stay pure because it is the Christian thing to do," said Lindsay Anne Schell, an 18-year-old freshman at Bradley University in Peoria. "The rose shows the world that you are devoting your purity to God and to your father."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-purity_bddec02,0,7143764.story

[Deja Q]

1. At least she's not talking about willful incest...

Where's Jerry Lee Lewis or Woody Allen when we need them the most?

:hide:

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. I think that whole thing is really creepy, too. n/t

[Deja Q]

3. "purity"? Pure? As in extra virgin olive oil?

:hide:

[mike_c]

4. sheesh, the taliban is alive and well in America....

One of my first girlfriends-- back in high school-- was a baptist minister's daughter. She was hot! Eventually, daddy bundled her off to xtian camp one summer and she came back all chaste and regretful-- and I was no longer needed, thank you very much. Damn nearly broke my heart.

[datasuspect]

5. at least the evangelicals aren't stoning these girls for their natural urges

yet.

[mike_c]

6. oh, that day will come, I'm sure....

Those folks aren't restrained by sanity.

[Bucky]

17. Actually, if you get them stoned they're usually too goofed up to go lose their virginity

Keep 'em drugged up at home to keep 'em pure, I say. Comatose teens are chaste teens.

[matcom]

7. how come her Dad didn't pledge HIS virginity to HER!

seems one-sided to me

[Bucky]

12. Um, think "cause and effect"

I just want to know if it's a traditional key or one of those new electronic 'swipe' keys.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. I don't get the pledging it to Dad part. That's just weird if you ask me.

[petronius]

10. Yeah, that's just strange. It's fine with me if someone wants to choose

abstinence, and certainly parents have a role to play in a child's development, but some sort of quasi-matrimonial virginity ceremony is boggling to me...

[yardwork]

14. But why the dad? Why does the daughter pledge her virginity to her father?

Oh wait. He hands the key over to her husband on her wedding day. This is nothing but the old story - women are owned by their male relatives. Taliban.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. That was my first thought too.

[Critters2]

24. It's creepy. It impies that her sexuality somehow belongs to him,

until she's married. Honestly, in a really unhealthy family, I could see this leading to sexual abuse by the father. It just seems to give him power over her sexually. Seems risky. And creepy.

[datasuspect]

30. i didn't want to say "abuse"

but looking at it, there is an abusive factor to the idea that a father is the guardian of his daughter's vagina and that it for him to give a husband the key to his daughter's vagina. and that is what this is really about.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. cos of virginity implies purity. virginity just means you havent gotten laid

and thats the be all and end all of it.

[trof]

11. This doesn't pass the 'ick' test.

[DS1]

13. They made a movie, or a series of movies about this in fact, called

Straight to the A


problem solved

[IndianaJones]

15. Taboo American Style addresses this issue head on. nt.

[DS1]

19. Was that the one with Draghixa?

:swoon:

[IndianaJones]

20. its old school 80's. nt

[Poll_Blind]

16. Crap, heh heh, I just looked up both of those thinking they were about Purity Balls.

There's nothing pure about the balls in those movies.

[NickB79]

21. LOL

When I read that, I thought "I wonder if A means....."

Then I googled it, and yep, there it was :rofl:

[Critters2]

22. I did that, sort of. But it was more like,

if my dad found out I was having sex in high school, he would've grounded me until I was forty--if he was in a good mood. So, I assured him I wasn't.

Only difference was I didn't get a party. Or a ring.

[Pierre.Suave]

23. The whole christian control of sex looks like, to me anyway...

A bunch of white men with small dicks trying to control women.

I wrote a paper in college titled, "Republicans Have Small Penises"

I read some freud to back up my assertion that the cause of the right wingers control of sex and women stems from their feelings of inadequacy due to being hung like fleas.

Although I did no empirical study of my theory, I still stand behind it. I think it is true for the extreme wackos such as those above.

[datasuspect]

26. it is fundamentally about controlling women

there is nothing that differentiates this from removing the clitoris or inspecting bed sheets on the post-nuptial bedsheets in islamic countries.

our homegrown christian jihadists are spiritual brethren with extremist muslims. bedfellows, if you will

[Pierre.Suave]

27. I still think my theory applies

these wackos that control women and their sexual lives do it because of some resentment, I believe stemming from a couple sources, one, small wang, two, their moms did not like them enough.

The mother is a huge influence in the lives of boys/young men that grow into men. As is the father in the development of the young girls into women.

[datasuspect]

29. penis size probably does play into this

[Heidi]

25. My father's a Southern Baptist, and I was raised Southern Baptist, but my dad would NEVER

have DREAMED of interfering/intervening in what I did with my body. He's a lifelong liberal and, like me, he considers this kind of thing nutty, fringe and creepy.

[greatauntoftriplets]

28. That was a pretty alarming article....

I wonder how these young women's marriages will turn out.

:shrug:

[Fire Walk With Me]

31. Don't touch that gold key, you don't know where it's been!

[Akoto]

32. "The gold key to my vagina"

What the hell? Their fathers make them say that? :wow: :scared:

[Oeditpus Rex]

33. It's all about marketing

[nomorenomore08]

34. This only adds weight to my theory

that the best thing for the status of women, worldwide, would be the abandonment of organized religion.