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About Purity & Chastity Rings
True Love Waits (TLW) is an international Christian group that promotes sexual abstinence outside of marriage for teenagers and college students. TLW was created in April, 1993, and is sponsored by LifeWay Christian Resources. It is based on Christian views of human sexuality that require one to be faithful to one’s husband or wife, even before marriage.
In addition, they promote sexual purity, which encompasses not only abstaining from intercourse before marriage, but also abstaining from sexual thoughts, sexual touching, pornography, and actions that are known to lead to sexual arousal.
Except, When It Does…
Purity balls can vary in many particulars, but fathers who attend typically pledge before God to protect their young daughters’ purity in mind, body and soul. Daughters are expected to remain virgins, abstaining from pre-marital sexual intercourse. Fathers must sign the “Covenant of Purity and Protection,” witnessed by their daughters, and openly commit to the pledge.
Miss Manners’s opinion is that “polite society does not recognize such a thing as a chastity ring. It is so polite that it presumes that a lady is chaste unless publicly proven otherwise.”
The grossest one by far, “an unblossomed rose”
