Purity Balls (!)

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:10 PM -0500 3/6/07, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>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?
>...
>Purity balls? They couldn't come up with a better name for this?
>...
>...

My favorite part of the coverage was the 12-year-old girl who
explained, while hanging on her daddy's arm, that she would not kiss
or date anyone until she got married.  (At which point, I assume, the
kissing and dating will be lots more fun.)

Larry

>...
>_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.
>...
>...
>...
>
>_http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/02/04/fathers-vow-to-protect-vi_n_40406.ht
>ml_
>(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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