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Clyde-B:

--- Quote from: CellarDweller on September 17, 2008, 02:12:16 pm ---
"damn, you got some right purty balls!"

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Yeah, that sounded like an interesting topic to me!  That's why I came to this thread!   :laugh:

And then I got here and saw....


--- Quote from: Kerry on September 16, 2008, 11:53:35 pm ---
Fathers across the U.S.A. are promising to protect their daughters' virtue until marriage.


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Which sounds more than just a little creepy.

And then I read...


--- Quote from: CellarDweller on September 17, 2008, 05:27:27 am ---Typical double standard.  The boys don't need protecting because to screw around is a "rite of passage" and how they become men.  However, if a girl does the same thing, she's 'soiled' and therefor not a 'good girl'.
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If the father's are protecting the girls, then  who are the boys going to screw around with? ???

Oh, yeah!   ;D

But then,


--- 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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It kind a makes the girl sound like property - like she doesn't have a brain or a will of her own.

Kelda:
Great topic Kerry, but yup, it gives me the ick factor too!

CellarDweller:

--- Quote from: Clyde-B on September 17, 2008, 03:52:47 pm ---If the father's are protecting the girls, then  who are the boys going to screw around with? ???

Oh, yeah!   ;D
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 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Kerry:

I found it quite disconcerting when I first read about it, but thought the alarm bells I was hearing in my head may have had something to do with my own cynical, jaundiced view of life. It was interesting for me to read the comments from both male and female BetterMostians, verifying my initial view.

In their defense, the fathers who belong to the Purity Balls movement, probably also belong to such organisations as Father & Son. As I have no knowledge of the inner workings/philosophy of F&S, however, I regret my inability to comment on whether or not they are concerned with preserving the boys' "purity," which appears to be the primary underlying philosophical premise of PB.

One can't help but wonder if a lot of what's behind this is the parents (for I have no doubt that this also has the support of the mothers) looking out for their own interests, comprising of generous dollops of good ol' fashioned "What would the neighbours think?" if, heaven forbid, the daughter should ever "fall" pregnant.

Katie77:
I was thinking the same thing Kerry, whether it was as much about the parents reputation, that was being protected.

And, I think the thing that makes me nauseaus is that in that picture, the girls seem to be no more than little children, who seem far too young to be having their "purity" discussed or put on display. Makes you wonder what is going on in their childish, naeive minds and how they are interpreting it all.

UGH!!!....why cant they let children be children.

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