Allow me to direct your attention to an excellent article over at SFGate today: In his never-ending, quixotic, and hilarious mission to de-douchify America, Mark Morford applies his wit and run-on sentence skilz to the topic of Christian “Purity Balls” in Christian Virgins Are Overrated. Here, he tells us of the disturbing emergent trend of daddy-and-6-year-old-girl purity/marriage ceremonies, where fathers claim the title of “high priest of the home” and makes said daughter read aloud a formal pledge to stay “pure” until daddy says it’s okay. Yes, these are the exact same people behind the War on Contraception — and oh, my friends in Colorado Springs, I grieve for you. Here’s a great snip:
“It’s true. Purity Balls are happening, right now. And yes, you have heard this all before. Particularly from the conservative Right, especially from America’s rigid and pale fundamentalist “core.”
“Premarital sex is evil. Female sexuality must be, as ever, contained, repressed, shoved deep down lest it tempt men to sin like gleeful pagans licking ice cream from the pierced nipples of the devil. Girls do not know how to handle their own genitalia and therefore must be taught — by their fathers, no less — how to dilute their sexual power in order to attract a sexually unqualified, God-fearing husband. You know, same as it ever was.
“Very well. Let us now trace the path of imminent cultural destruction: Virgin girl has zero experience with the joys of her own body, with orgasm, with men, with sex toys or shower heads or good gynecological gizmongery. She then marries a man who will very likely have not the slightest clue (as he has had the same dreadful sexual miseducation as our fair virgin) as to what to do with a woman’s body, who will, by most all accounts, be unable to tell an erogenous zone from an elbow, a clitoris from a belly button.”
Read the whole article here (popup warning). Thanks Sean!
