What do Purity Balls make you think of? I was watching TV, flippin' around a little in light of there being no Mad Men tonight and I stumbled upon the TLC channel. There it is, the title "Purity Balls." I couldn't stop saying it. I happily made my way through every sick joke I could think of during the hour long program, from any angle. Creepy right? I know, well, Purity Balls are full of life, particularly in Colorado Springs. It's all about this father/daughter relationship that has to do with...balls...and...purity. It's a noble cause where fathers pledge to become more involved and central in a daughters life. The only problem is that founders Randy & Lisa Wilson decided to call it Purity Balls. It really has little to do with balls, and more to do with kissing, as the daughters aim to save their first kiss for their wedding day. Weird, cause where I come from, the uptight save their Virginity for their wedding night, but I guess that's a little too secular. Let us replace sex with kissing and wedding night with wedding day. Let us also replace Promise Ring with Purity Balls. I feel like all these evangelical abstinence terms are starting to sound like a porn shop inventory ("yea, I'll have three purity balls, a leather mask, two promise rings, and a pair of hand cuffs").
What should they have called it, instead of Purity Ball?
2 comments:
This is really disturbing. Saving your first kiss?
Purity balls have also drawn criticism from some Christians; in the Chicago Sun Times, Betsy Hart writes:
I'm an evangelical Christian who firmly believes that sex should be reserved for marriage. But I just can't imagine going about it this way with any of my four kids, son or daughters ... I can't help but wonder if a single-minded focus on virginity is an ironic, and unintended way, of sexualizing youth in a different way..."[
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