"purity ring"

[Jonathan Lighter]

America's latest "idol," Jordin Sparks, says she wears a "purity ring" because "true love waits."  Whatever. You can Google up a zillion exx., but the earliest on Usenet (other than a couple of marginally related senses) is from 1996.

  JL


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