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[moonwise]

The Pursuit of Teen Girl Purity

When Kylie was 13, her parents took her on a hike in Lake Tahoe, Calif. "We discussed what it means to be a teenager in today's world," she says. They gave her a charm for her bracelet--a lock in the shape of a heart. Her father has the key. "On my wedding day, he'll give it to my husband," she explains.

That's not phallic at all.

1. Are we also having Teen Boy Purity parties? What kinds of charms are exchanged to represent these mother and son vows?

2. Why is so much of the onus for remaining pure placed on the girls? (rhetorical question, because there's no physical indication of whether a boy is a virgin.)

Comments

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

It was pretty much a slow decline. I'm sure someone smarter than me has a quote about education being the antithesis for religion, but it really kicked off in college. You know, with meeting actual gay people. Who weren't making a *choice* to be gay, but really enjoying themselves. And sincerely good people who weren't christian. All that good stuff. And actually thinking about the things I believed and so on and so forth. So the born-again thing happened very quickly, but getting it out of my system was a slow crawl.

I still believe in God, though, because I'm so clumsy and accident-prone that I believe the only way I've survived this long is through divine intervention.