your virginity to your father?
Right now the Today show is doing a segment on the Purity Ball. The claim is that its growing out of the "abstinence movement" and is to help reduce the 80% (!?!) of high schoolers who have sex by their 18th birthday. First, I find it pretty hard to believe that 12 yr olds (well, at least the 12 yr olds I grew up with, maybe "things are different now") REALLY understand what a vow of chastity means. Also, its unclear (to me at least) if this is a vow of purity till marriage or till their 18th birthday. And I don't think that this can be good for parent-child communication. What if they ARE "involved" in HS and thinking about sex and then don't feel comfortable talking to mom/dad about it because of this pledge from middle school?? Lastly, I really get the impression that part of this vow is having your father "protect" you till you have a husband to "protect" you. Ugh. What happened to empowerment?
However....My biggest issue....
There's no mention of the sons. The boys these daughters are (or are not) have sex with. Appearently noone cares about their purity.
I hate double standards.
Everything you never wanted to know about Purity Ballz:
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http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/01/18/purity-or-integrity/
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/02/05/dates-with-daddy/
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2007/02/more-purity-ballz.html
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2006/08/snort.html
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Oh, and I think the operative term, which you've failed to mention, is creepy. Especially so as this is the sort of thing that I would have gone along with way back in the day.
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