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Purity Balls
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on September 17, 2008, 10:08:24 am ---You wanna take your what, and put it where?!?!?!?!?
and I'm supposed to like it?!?!?!?!
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ROFL! Reminds me of that intense sixth-grade girl talk among certified daughters of Dixie......
MaineWriter:
There was an article about these Purity Balls in the New York Times a few months ago (in fact, from the pictures, it looks like the exact same event). It doesn't really say anything different than the Time article but it just reinforces the ick factor of the whole creepy event.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/us/19purity.html
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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on September 17, 2008, 09:38:17 am ---I often wonder how these girls react to sex when they finally do get married.
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Maybe their mothers tell them to just close their eyes and think of England, or the U.S., or Australia, or wherever. ... ::)
--- Quote ---I dont know, Its hard to knock a parent for looking out for the well being of their daughter, but something about this approach, just doesn't look right to me.
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--- Quote from: Penthesilea on September 17, 2008, 09:19:33 am ---An excerpt from the above linked article:
"When Kylie was 13, her parents took her on a hike in Lake Tahoe, Calif. "We discussed what it means to be a teenager in today's world," she says. They gave her a charm for her bracelet--a lock in the shape of a heart. Her father has the key. On my wedding day, he'll give it to my husband," she explains. "It's a symbol of my father giving up the covering of my heart, protecting me, since it means my husband is now the protector. He becomes like the shield to my heart, to love me as I'm supposed to be loved."
A modern chastitiy belt; the key given from one owner to the next - all symbolically of course. :P
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No, it doesn't look right. The whole thing just reeks of a reactionary throwback or desire to return to the time when a woman was "the weaker vessel" and the property of her father until she became the property of her husband. Property litterally.
I have to think this is not conducive to raising a daughter to be a strong, self-sufficient, independent person.
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 17, 2008, 03:26:47 pm ---
No, it doesn't look right. The whole thing just reeks of a reactionary throwback or desire to return to the time when a woman was "the weaker vessel"
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Just for the record, I have never ever ever been a weaker vessel! LOL
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on September 17, 2008, 03:31:15 pm ---Just for the record, I have never ever ever been a weaker vessel! LOL
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Nobody would ever make that mistake about you, Honey! ;D :-*
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