Purity Balls (!)

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ABC's World News Tonight did a story on "purity balls," where fathers dance  
with daughters (who pledge purity until marriage). Will OED have a "purity  
balls" entry?
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Purity balls? They couldn't come up with a better name for this?
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_http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2928607&page=1_ 
(http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2928607&page=1) 
Purity Balls Include Big Night Out With White Cake and Vows, but No  Groom
   

By GIGI STONE
 

March 6, 2007 — It's Friday night, and teenage girls are full  of excitement 
as they primp for a dance at the local Holiday Inn. But for this  group of 
girls in Sioux Falls, S.D., the night's dream date is not a teenage  boy. 
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_http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/02/04/fathers-vow-to-protect-vi_n_40406.ht
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(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/02/04/fathers-vow-to-protect-vi_n_40406.html)   
_Fathers Vow  To Protect Virginity Of Daughter Dates At "Purity Balls" Across 
The US_ (http://www.glamour.com/news/articles/2007/01/purityballs07feb) 
Glamour Magazine   |  Posted  February 4, 2007 04:52 PM  
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_What is a Purity Ball_ (http://generationsofligh
t.myicontrol.com/generationsoflight/index.cfm?ID=C7D9C98F-F39B-4721-82312665A131C364)      Purity Ball 
Father Daughter Celebrations  Celebrations of Faith Generations of Light Randy 
and Lisa Wilson.
generationsoflight.myicontrol.com/generationsoflight/generationsoflight.myicon
trol.com/generationsoflight/<WBR>inde
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_Whatever:  Purity Balls_ (http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004156.html)      
Question in e-mail today asking me what I  thought of "Purity Balls," the odd 
... My own thought about  these purity balls is that they're really icky -- we  
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www.scalzi.com/whatever/004156.html -  64k
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_Christian Virgins Are Overrated / Think sex and drugs destroy  ..._ 
(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2006/05/12/notes051206.DTL&n
l=fix)      These unholy events called "Purity Balls"  and you should 
probably fall to ... Purity Balls. No, not  some sort of newfangled spherical 
chastity device to be  ...
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/<&
nl=fix  - 36k
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