South Dakota Chastity Balls in the News
(Hat tip to CCK)
ABC News has a story on South Dakota Chastity Balls, and how Leslee Unruh is helping to drive the demand across the nation:
Read it all here.
As I'd written on it before, it’s one of those things that makes some fathers (such as I) squirm. Going to a dance for purposes of discussing intimacy in days past had absolutely nothing to do with any female relatives whatsoever.
Would they say “thank you for honoring me,” or would I get a “Dad, this is really creepy” from my teenagers?
ABC News has a story on South Dakota Chastity Balls, and how Leslee Unruh is helping to drive the demand across the nation:
Thousands of girls have taken purity vows at this kind of event since the
first ball was thrown in 1998 by Generations of Light, a popular Christian
ministry in Colorado Springs.
Last year, South Dakota's Abstinence Clearinghouse run by Leslee Unruh,
a major association of the purity movement, received requests to send out 700
"Purity Ball Planner" booklets.
These balls are the latest trend in the national abstinence movement,
which began in the 1980s as a grassroots effort from the Christian community in
response to high rates of sexually transmitted diseases.
Read it all here.
As I'd written on it before, it’s one of those things that makes some fathers (such as I) squirm. Going to a dance for purposes of discussing intimacy in days past had absolutely nothing to do with any female relatives whatsoever.
Would they say “thank you for honoring me,” or would I get a “Dad, this is really creepy” from my teenagers?
Comments
It is time to get over the creepy feeling.
If you don't talk to your daughters about intimate things--with your positive and encouraginging spin on it--others WILL talk to them--and it likely won't be what you want them to hear.
This from a daughter whose Dad was "creeped out" and didn't give his daughter a clue.
GROW UP and GET OVER IT.
Think of this as one of the most important jobs that you will do as the father of a young girl. If you can't manage a Purity Ball then make your own time and place--but don't neglect this job because of your own selfish, male, "creeped out" problem!
You can take your daughter out for supper and maybe a movie and it will be much less expensive than Leslee's purity balls. You can talk to your wife about how to approach the topic and what to say.
Leslee isn't doing this out of the goodness of her heart. She's making big bucks from it - like she does everything in which she is involved.
Would it not be best just to have open and honest talks with your kids about all subjects, including the risks of sex before marriage?
This thing is too self-righteous for my taste. (And just how much money does Leslee make on all of these things? Doesn't anybody know?)
If my dad had suggested something like this I would have bought a deadbolt for my bedroom door. It is ten flavors of creepy.
You can instill values and expectations in your kids without becoming incestious and acting like you own your daughters uterus.
And the dough keeps rolling in. . .
Can we get any sicker?
it's like what happens to sheltered kids their first semester at college...
PS anon 11:52 a.m.--- I'm a mother, and I used to be a young girl, so I think I'm qualified to make the statement that "THIS IS SICK!".
Kate Looby - why don't you get a real job instead of making your living killing babies?
Can Leslee's Chastity Balls be held within 500 feet of a school?
Does Leslee promote Chastity Balls for boys and their mothers?
One of the PBS dance competitions had younger children dancing together in clothes similar to the skimpy outfits the adults had on or off doing the tango, etc. That struck me as creepy enough.
Now, if one of the adult male dancers had danced with one of those little girls, we might have had a promotional youtube video for Leslee's newest money maker.
Voice of experience? Mostly definitely! And she is doing her level best to see that no other young women go through the grief and self-hatred that she has known. Would you rather have her profit from the murder of infants like Kate Looby does?
It's like the long list of divorced Republicans (Reagan, Limbaugh, Giulani, McCain, Gingrich) and adulterers (Gingrich, Giulani, Hyde, Livingston) who lead the supposed party of family values.
Hyprocrisy is a tough pill to swallow.
But at the end of the day, nothing is creepier than a dad taking his daughter to a dance. Talk to your kids, don't date them. If liberals did that, we'd never hear the end of it.
Being the father of two daughters, yep, I think it crosses the line of the Creep Factor. Here's what I mean:
* When she was in Brownies, my daughter took me to "Daddy Date Night" at the Elks Lodge. It was okay, but felt a bit wierd. The theme was not about sexual activity.
* Chastity Balls, hmmmm, isn't that about sexual activity? Other than the Big Talk with the parents about the birds and the bees, why would Dad take Daughter to a BALL about sexual restraint????
This is all about sexual boundary violations. "C'mon Dad, let's go out on a date and celebrate my abstinence from having sex!!!"
Ummm, don't do it. This should be a no-brainer. Right cause, wrong method.