Anyone else watching this show on Purity Balls?

[margotb822]

Sooooooo creepy :scared:

Where do these people come from??

On edit: Shouldn't mothers and son's be involved in this process, too? After all, it seems that the double standard is glaring. Why is it ok for sons to fuck around?

[Bicoastal]

1. Sorry, I don't get the Spice Channel.

[gabeana]

2. what channel

right now I'm watching All the presidents men on AMC

[SoCalNative]

7. TLC

yes they're creepy messes

[Goblinmonger]

3. My 12-year-old son

keeps laughing every time they say "purity balls."

And, yes, they are creepy.

[MazeRat7]

11. Well apparently @ 50 I'm not much different than your 12 year old... I laughed reading this.. n/t

[Goblinmonger]

13. Oh, I'm 42 and laughing along with him.

My wife doesn't think it's so funny and apparently I need to "just grow up."

[MazeRat7]

15. Never grow up, never grow old, and laugh at what you find is funny...

I do...

Peace,
MZr7

[tjwash]

24. I'm in my 50's and the first thing I thought of was chef's chocolate salty balls

:rofl:

[jakefrep]

29. Chocolate Purity Balls?

[petronius]

40. I thought the OP said "purty" balls,

which made me :rofl:. Then I thought of Schwetty Balls from SNL, and :rofl:ed again. It's odd that people as hyper-freaky about sex as these ballers are couldn't come up with a different term for their event...

[Warren DeMontague]

28. Some balls are held for charity, and some for fancy dress

But when they're held for pleasure
They're the balls that I like best!

http://www.lyricsdomain.com/1/acdc/big_balls.html

[billyoc]

4. That thing where it looks like men are marrying their daughters?

Eww... :puke:

[BlooInBloo]

8. "daughters pledging their virginity to their fathers" I believe is how they put it.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

16. "Sexualizing the father-daughter relationship" is how almost anyone else would put it.

[BlooInBloo]

18. Well yah, there is that.

[margotb822]

10. I don't have a daughter, but

if my husband ever looked at our daughter that way, I'd boot him out of the house. It's really one step away from incest.

[msongs]

5. evidently Palin's daughter is not into that scene lolololol nt

[margotb822]

12. The woman on now is talking about

how she broke her purity pledge and became pregnant "because she didn't have the education." Hmmm, looks like no matter what people say they're going to do, we need to teach them for what they're actually going to do.

[BlooInBloo]

6. Nah. Read about them puh-lenty on Digby.

[Warpy]

9. Dunno, but I knew one couple who saved all physical contact

for marriage. After a couple of years of the bride wondering what was wrong with her and why she was so repellent, he left her for a man.

Just sayin'. If those hormones aren't raging before the wedding, something else is going on and I don't mean love of Jesus.

[margotb822]

14. Wow, that is unfortunate

I was thinking about saving all physical contact for marriage, and I don't think I could do it. Going from not even kissing to being the most intimate in one night? Talk about a burden. I hope they're serving alcohol at those weddings!

[Missy Vixen]

19. My college roommate married a guy she hadn't even kissed yet

till the wedding ceremony. They have three kids, so things must have worked out.

I agree with you, though -- those who can "wait till the wedding" aren't that enamored in the first place.

IMHO, YMMV,
Julie

[TlalocW]

33. I was a groomsman at a good friend's wedding

And the bridesmaid I was paired off with was marrying a Southern Baptist, and she mentioned something during our dance about how this was going to be the most fun and physical contact she was going to have until her wedding. So I did what any normal, all-American boy would do - told her a bunch of Baptist jokes for the entire five minutes we danced.

Why don't Baptists have sex standing up? They're afraid it might lead to dancing! Ba-boom!
Why do you want to take more than one Baptist with you on fishing trips? If you just take one, he'll drink all your beer! Ha-cha!

TlalocW

[BlooInBloo]

20. Or, maybe it IS the love of Jesus!

:rofl:

[Warpy]

21. Oooh, you're gonna go to hell for that one

I'll be glad to know at least one other person there!

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

22. You know the old saying

Heaven for the weather, hell for the company.

[BlooInBloo]

23. Heh. I've already started decorating plot #90450.

[Missy Vixen]

35. I'd like to live next door

I'm thinking it would never be dull, BlooInBloo! :woohoo:

Julie

[get the red out]

31. I don't know,

the guy he left her for may have been some nice looking Latino dude named "Jesus".

[SoCalNative]

17. I love the guy with 9 kids by 7 women

who hand inseminates cattle for a living, and wants his 16 and 11 yo daughters to make the "purity pledge."

[margotb822]

27. Yea, the hypocrisy is glaring

I also think it's interesting that parents are going so far to "protect" their children from life's experiences. Heartbreak is tough, but finding yourself afterward can be a life-changing experience. No one wants to see someone they love in pain, but to go so far as to stifle life and love seems extreme to me.

[BlooInBloo]

30. Hey - if ANYBODY would know about imurity, it's him!

:rofl:

[SoCalNative]

32. The bottom line is

this is just one more example of these men exerting and maintaining their patriarchal authority in the name of "god" over their womenfolk.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

25. I missed the first part, do any of you know what part of the country this takes place in?

[margotb822]

26. All over, but mostly the midwest

I think it started in Colorado.

[get the red out]

34. How can it possibly be healthy

to teach young girls that the only worth they can ever have is an intact hymen on their wedding night. What if a girl is raped? Is she then to see herself as "soiled" and unworthy of a "good man" ever loving her?

None of this can be healthy. And of course boys are never to blame for anything. Having a penis removes all guilt and shame for life I suppose.

Fundamentalists are completely deranged. I pity their poor daughters.

[firedupdem]

36. This is the freakiest crap ever....I loved my dad and we had a great

relationship but never, ever, could I have been like this with him! Ick! They are touchy, feely, and crying and shit..Ick!

[SharonAnn]

38. What happens if she doesn't stay pure? Honor killings?

The father "owns" his daughters sexuality? Why on earth is he so obsessed with it?

It's just sick.

[Berry Cool]

37. The great irony is that this show was preceded by one called "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant."

By all rights, it should have FOLLOWED this show.

[firedupdem]

39. well now we've got the show with 4 yr olds caked in makeup...

I really wish I could sleep. These shows and the election are making me crazy!

[Liberal_in_LA]

41. The father blessing his 7 kids is getting off on his patriarchal home environment.

I'm referring to the leader of the purity ball.. the guy who's daughters
were smiling at him with hero worship... The oath of the fathers mentioned
that the men were chief priest of their home. I'm seen this kind of crap
before. Males who get off on seeing their family as a subservient group within the home.