Electra would be proud

[tikistitch]

No matter how many times we're grossed out by this, they keep putting it in the news.

No sex please, we're daddy's little girls

WASHINGTON (AFP) - It has all the ingredients of a wedding. The proud tuxedo-clad father, the frosted white cake, the limousines and an exchange of vows.

But there is no groom and the girl in the long gown is no bride. She's daddy's little girl, there to take a vow of chastity.

In what is becoming a trend among conservative Christians in the United States, girls as young as nine are pledging to their fathers to remain virgins until they wed, in elaborate ceremonies dubbed "Purity Balls."

A very special day!

So many kinds of EWWWW.

And what happens to the Daddy's Little Virgins who don't end up as special prizes for suicide bombers?

One study conducted by researchers at the universities of Columbia and Yale found that 88 percent of pledgers wind up having sex before marriage.

"Unfortunately these young people tend, once they start to have sex, to have more partners in a shorter period of time and to use contraception much less than their non-pledging peers...."

There you have it: Science proves, Purity Balls lead directly to Britney Spears!!!

Comments

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Okya, it may be just me but "The proud tuxedo-clad father, the frosted white cake, the limousines and an exchange of vows....the girl in the long gown is no bride. She's daddy's little girl, there to take a vow of chastity." makes me think of one thing: she savin' it up for incest with daddy. Seriously, that's what it sounds like.

Man what is it with these ultra-conservative religous groups and their wholly unhealthy obsession with girls sexuality. Sounds like another group we know of...say like maybe the Taliban? And why is it they do these shindigs for girls but not for boys? Duh? Guys don't pregnant.

And you know why these same girls once they have sex they are more reckless than their non-pledging peers? First, they haven't been taught the more practical things like contraception and protection. Second, since they've been taught to place a ridiculously high value on "chastity", now that they've "lost it" before marriage they're fallen, so the walllow in it out because it's forbidden fruit along side the sense that they deserve what happens for sinning.

You know, just teaching them about sex and consquences - and birth control - makes so much more sense and doesn't mess them up nearly so much. Oh, but I forgot. That would give them a license to do it, or so those same yahoos believe. And we can't have them making they're own informed choices. It's not like people have been having sex for centuries without being educated about it.

Electra? Cute!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to imagine a ball where a boy pledges his virginity to his Mom...yeah, that'd go over really well.

Re: Electra? Cute!

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Worked for Oedipus.

[lilblueunicorn.livejournal.com]

"Okya, it may be just me but "The proud tuxedo-clad father, the frosted white cake, the limousines and an exchange of vows....the girl in the long gown is no bride. She's daddy's little girl, there to take a vow of chastity." makes me think of one thing: she savin' it up for incest with daddy. Seriously, that's what it sounds like."

EXACTLY!

-§parky

Re: Electra? Cute!

[girlontheleft.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize it was an "exchange" of vows.

Considering how common divorce is, even among conservative Christians, tying the Daughter's chastity to Dad's marital vows seems like a sucker's bet to me.