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

[blythou.livejournal.com]

EWWWWW indeed. This is so sick. It reeks of incest, blind conservatism, hardcore religious fanaticism... All the things I adore.

We don't have that sort of things in France yet. But I'm seeing more and more 9-year old Muslim girls with veils. And it saddens me all the same.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

We don't have that sort of things in France yet. But I'm seeing more and more 9-year old Muslim girls with veils. And it saddens me all the same.

Me too. I've actually heard some thoughtful, well-spoken Muslim women defend hijab. I'm sorry, but my cultural relativism just doesn't reach that far, especially when it's underaged girls.

[mmymoon.livejournal.com]

I think this might end up being a dividing issue for feminism/human rights -- I find that hijab is really pushing my sense of what is morally "okay" in terms of an individual's religious/self-expression rights. I've heard the thoughtful arguments, but at the end of the day, I'm just too Western-thought based to be convinced. If we value logic and freedom above all else, how is it okay to teach girls to cover themselves? It just feels inherently incompatible with everything I morally value.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

To relate this to a more American situation, if you're a grownup woman, and you've decided you wanna adopt the Quiverfull lifestyle (here's Wikipedia's take on them, basically, they don't use birth control at all & try to have as many kiddies as they can possibly stay pregnant), then, well, that's your choice. But if you brainwash little bitty girls that they have to pump out babies or God will damn them eternally, then that kind of goes over my limit.

[mmymoon.livejournal.com]

*snorts* Alas, I'm already familiar with that movement. My favoritest charity of all time is the "Broken Arrow" ministries, or somesuch, that collects money for poor poor men who want to reverse their vasectomies because they previously had them but now they're omg Quiverfull! Just makes me want to donate millions!

Hmmm. You know, I think I may have a problem with all of these things, because I don't really think children are able to give consent -- to RELIGION, period. Which goes against pretty much all religions' aims of marketing to children, but yanno.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Quiverfull always makes me think of a comment I heard referring to them: "It's a vagina not a clown car!"

Did I mention that Quiverfull creeps me out totally. It's basically a "Christian" redress of pump more pure Arayan kids out for the Fuhrer...because it's scary that OMG white childbirth is slowing down and there's not enough Conservatives Christians to take over the world nation. It's seriously fucked up...come to think of it literally. And it basically puts women at the mercy of every male around them starting with their godhead master husband.