#purity ball

[wunschliste]

[kittygrimm]

Purity Ball by Kitty-Grimm

[littletroubledgrrrl]

MTV's My Super Sweet Purity Ball...

[ofdinosanddais1]

One evangelical thing I never experienced was the purity balls. My girl scout troop had a daddy daughter dance but it was just about getting dressed up and having fun with your dad and they did a mom and son dance for boy scouts. Nothing about purity or anything because we were all literally five.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Mike Johnson made his 13-year-old daughter promise him that she wouldn’t have sex

"This looks like a wedding, but they are not bride and groom — but rather father and... daughter...

Daniel Villarreal at LGBTQ Nation:

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) took his daughter to a “purity ball” sometime around 2015, according to a recently resurfaced segment that his family recorded for a German TV news program. At the ball, a formal father-daughter dance popular among conservative Christians, Johnson had his daughter sign a pledge promising that she would not have sex until marriage. The news segment is further evidence of Johnson’s obsession with his children’s and other people’s sex lives. He has previously said that he and his son monitor one another’s pornography viewing habits, and he has supported the criminalization of same-sex sexual encounters and believes same-sex marriage will lead to pedophilia and bestiality. “This looks like a wedding,” the German news reporter says in the 2015 N-TV news segment. “But they are not bride and groom — but rather father and… daughter,” the reporter continues, mentioning Johnson and his then-13-year-old daughter, Hannah. She is in her 20s now. [...] Purity balls gained popularity during the 1990s and 2000s. While conservative Christians claim that the balls encourage young girls to avoid sex before marriage, research shows that teens who sign chastity pledges are more likely to get pregnant than teens who don’t. Other critics say that such pledges and balls put too much pressure on young girls and foster the idea that men own their sexualities and genitalia.

Just before he became a Congressman and later House Speaker, Christian fundamentalist zealot Mike Johnson took his teenage daughter to a purity ball in 2015 and made her sign an abstinence pledge that she not have sex until marriage, according to a documentary from German outlet N-TV.

This story is a reminder that purity culture in which a girl's sex and dating life is put under the control of their father until marriage and their husband during marriage is a creepy sexist doctrine called Christian Patriarchy that erodes bodily autonomy and that Speaker Johnson has a creepy obsession with controlling their sex lives of their children and other people.

See Also:

ABC News: Speaker Mike Johnson and daughter were profiled attending 'purity ball' in 2015 German TV news segment

Salon: Newly unearthed video shows Mike Johnson and his daughter attending "purity ball" in 2015

Friendly Atheist: Here's why Speaker Mike Johnson's attendance at a "Purity Ball" is so damn disturbing

[rumbelleprompts]

Belle loses her virginity before her Purity Ball to Mr Gold.

[powders-and-oils]

Purity balls are so weird and creepy. It's about little girls pledging their virginity to their fathers or something right? Something about that doesn't sit right with me. It's kind of gross.