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

[mmymoon.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.


(WHEN will our culture at large accept that abstinence-based sexual education ONLY MAKES THINGS WORSE???)

[sarahpolk.livejournal.com]

Ya know, I don't have a problem with sex education that includes abstinence as a form of birth control. What I don't like is that, at least the way I understand it, a lot of abstinence-based education is "just say no" and they don't provide any other information.

Kind of reminds you of drug abstinence education. In fact, the two are actually quite similar. If the government-funded schools tell me ALL drugs are bad, but then I see rampant use of alcohol and cigarettes, and I see my parents taking a lot of prescription drugs, and a lot of my classmates are on prescription drugs, what does that teach me? That the teachers are hypocrites.

[mmymoon.livejournal.com]

Yeaaaaaaaaaah, but I've actually sat in on some of those programs. It's not "and this is also an option," so much as "CONDOMS BREAK ALL THE TIME AND ARE WORTHLESS, SO JUST DON'T HAVE SEX." (Seriously -- oh, I was furious. Even when I was freaking 14 I knew more about sexual health. One of the programs I sat in on threw around old testing standards for latex gloves as the psuedo-scientific "facts" they had that condoms could not prevent HIV. I waltzed in the next day with some Clinton-era CDC reports and was "Uh no, you guys are full of crap.")

So what happens when kids are told condoms don't work, but don't have sex because Jesus loves you? When the kids DO end up having sex, they don't use condoms, because they don't work anyway, right? My town had ridiculous teen pregnancy and HIV rates. It's getting better now (population growth = more diverse and less stupid opinions) but.

Even barring everything else, whoever thought programs based on STRICT SELF CONTROL IN THE FACE OF TEMPTATION were good ideas for TEENAGERS? I mean, I was a teenager, very recently! THAT'S JUST DUMB!