Purity ball video (CREE-PY)

[bluestateguy]

The whole evangelical attitude on sex is maddening enough, but it's also very sexist. They say they value virginity, but it is very clear that female virginity is valued more than male virginity. I have to ever hear of a mother-son purity ball.

And let's see if I got it right here: sex between a 19 year old boy and a 19 year old girl who are married, that is blessed by God and beautiful; sex between a man and a woman who are both 30 and unmarried, that is fornication and a sin against God. OK, got it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnRIk5bHe58

[limpyhobbler]

1. omg hahaha n/t

[Morning Dew]

2. Well worth the time

I have pretty mixed feelings on this - it is kind of creepy. At the same time, I understand parents wanting to show love and encouragement to their children.

This however, is so centered on male authority that it turns my stomach.

I thought these kinds of religious people were more concerned about boys being lost and adrift than girls.

rec.

[jmowreader]

3. There ARE mother-son purity balls!

Well, one at least...

http://www.wordoffaith-hburg.com/purityball.htm

And then there's this one...

http://www.hollywoodpurityball.com/

Look at the logo...a father holding a huge skeleton key in one hand and his daughter, who has a keyhole cut out about where her vagina would be, in the other.

[NMMNG]

4. That's truly creepy

Look at the logo...a father holding a huge skeleton key in one hand and his daughter, who has a keyhole cut out about where her vagina would be, in the other.


No man should be that fixated on his daughter's hymen, and no girl should let him be. What's more, no mother in her right mind should allow such a thing.

[boston bean]

9. here is the pic..... ewwww

[Richardo]

14. It's satirical theater....

Clue #1: "Hollywood"
Clue #2: The rest of the website.

[caraher]

17. Yep

It's not an especially subtle satire, either... but does nicely capture some of the weirdness of the movement.

[JoePhilly]

20. Ewww .... that is sick.

[Bunny]

6. Oh my dear lord:

Come in "prom wear" and receive a special Purity T-shirt which says "once you pop, you can’t stop."

[TK421]

7. Like we're talking about a can of fucking Pringles here!!!

these people are certifiable!

[Bunny]

8. The more I look at that website, the more I wonder if it isn't a satirical masterpiece.

It's just so over the top.

[Richardo]

12. Good call Bunny, that's exactly what it is.... theater.

From the link:

If the show you want to see is sold out, you can still experience Purity. We have set aside a stack of half price tickets ($15, cash only) that will be available at the door on the night of each show.

Also:

http://www.hollywoodpurityball.com/press.php

[NMMNG]

11. I wonder if Pringles gave them permission to

bastardize their logo and slogan.

[Vanje]

16. Whats wrong with this graphic?

No! Whats NOT wrong with this graphic?



Its apparently all about slots and who owns them.

I'll own the key to my OWN slot , Thankyou very much.

[jmowreader]

21. Uhh...that's kind of the point

The website is http://www.hollywoodpurityball.com.

Go to it, click on the address they're holding the Ball at, then use Street View in Google Maps and you shall see they're holding it in a bar that's right across the street from two sex-toy shops. If this was a real Purity Ball, they probably wouldn't have held it there.

Then again, you never know.

[Sparkly]

18. Is that satire???

I honestly can not tell.

EDIT:
The "Hollywood Father/Daughter Purity Ball" is a feisty satire of the movement that has become a staple of evangelical communities in Bible Belt states.
– Los Angeles Times

Whew!!! Says something about our country that it's hard to tell, though!

[HappyMe]

5. Ugh! Creepy,

creepy, creepy!


:yoiks:

[madokie]

10. One of the many reasons I don't do religion any more

I can't wrap my mind around all the bull that is religion

[sarcasmo]

13. More religious insanity.

[Vanje]

15. Ooooh. Yuck

Daddy is my boyfriend.

[rucky]

19. Our babysitter went to a Purity Ball...

and came out to her parents the following year.

You'd think they'd be relieved.

[The Genealogist]

22. Something that struck me about life in Florida

When I lived in Florida and went to a college there, just south of the Georgia line, one of my classmates was a Georgia "good old boy" type of a guy. He was VERY Christian, VERY conservative, very into that "Lincoln Was A War Criminal for declaring that 'War of Northern Aggression'" mindset. But there was one thing that really sickened him: this marriage like ceremony between fathers and daughters, designed to keep female children chaste.

The way he described it made it sound a lot like an actual marriage ceremony: certain oaths were spoken before a minister, rings were exchanged. The vows were not of marriage, but of chastity. To this "good old boy" with whom I went to school, it was really TOO much like marriage, and was WAY outside the bounds of propriety. To me it was highly creepy, smacking of marriage between a father and a daughter, of sexism and a level of parental control that seemed draconian to me.

I just wonder how many of the females, or males that go through similar ceremonies, actually do refrain from sex?

[bluestateguy]

23. Most end up breaking their pledges

Some will break it in high school or college, others when they are in their mid-20's, still single and tired of missing all the fun. Yes, a small few do keep their pledges. Maybe a 18-19 year old girl who rushes to marry her high school boyfriend because they are both horny, and a small number of young ladies who do have exceptional discipline, but they are the exception and not the rule.

A good many of these purity ball fathers don't seem to get the joke.

[Quantess]

24. Gross.