Have any of you heard about Purity Balls? Well if you haven't, check out this trailer for a new documentary:
After taking an ancient law class a few semesters ago, I've been drawing so many parallels to traditions and customs that are still practiced today. For instance, women were seen as property. Before they were married, they belonged to their fathers. After they were married, they belonged to their husbands. In their older age, they belonged to their sons.
A woman's ownership over her own sexuality is what's at stake with these purity balls. I don't know about you all, but I find it straight up creepy that young girls pledge their virginity to their fathers. Not only that, but there's totally a double standard for young men. Young men pledge to remain abstinent not because they have to maintain their purity, but because if they were to have sex before marriage, they would be "tainting" another man's daughter or future wife.
Sick, I know.
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