Some of you may have seen this, but for those who haven't: A short documentary on Evangelical Purity Balls
Posted Jul 26, 2019, 3:20 PM UTC
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I just watched this a few weeks ago. I was raised fundie lite and we didn’t have purity balls but I knew about them and I think it’s nuts. It’s very gross and disconcerting as a parent to think about owning my child’s virginity and placing such a high value on it. And it leads to so much shame when girls can’t live up to that high standard. And then when they do live up to it, there’s a whole host of issues that stem from that as well. Getting married young to someone you have virtually no physical experience with is a recipe for disaster.
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No physical experience and frequently no privacy either. Going from no touching to living together full time and sex all at once. It's shameful this is pushed on young people like this, who usually aren't even mature enough to make these decisions.
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If they’re raised in that environment they really don’t understand how life altering it is to go from no touching to sex and the expectations behind no touching (and the shame) to the expectation of fully meeting and being responsible for your husbands sexual needs. And then pairing that with young marriage and the teaching that God hates divorce and you’ve got a recipe for mental health issues and long term relationship issues.
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Plus horrific sex-ed to boot, lots of kids... it’s really horrible.
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Again fundie lite here but I got zero sex Ed other than don’t do it before you’re married. No birth control talks, no talks on how the body works for either person, nada.
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Ugh, “practicing for divorce” I forgot about that one
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I never went to one but it was def in my cultural sphere. I have not seen this but the creepy parts are re commiting yourself to virginity meaning you have a different lines than everyone else so they will all know you have had sex already and thus unclean and undesirable.