User talk:Zzajac10

Is this where we discuss ideas? TEST Zzajac10 (talk) 21:47, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Purity Ball: What we can add to the article
- Where it originated? When and Why?
- Details about the ceremony - what happens?
- Age range of girls
- Demographics
- Beliefs and reasons of daughters and fathers
- How many states they take place in

Criticism:
- Why not guys too?
- Pressure to stay a virgin
- View of girls as chaste, sex only for procreation, old fashioned views
- Abstinence: not educated about contraception. High rates of teen pregnancy and STDS

Positive:
- Strong father figure and role models
- Bringing them closer together

Here's a good article which gives a negative perspective on purity balls: deals with STDs, problems with abstinence and control over daughters, what is purity

http://bf4dv7zn3u.search.serialssolutions.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsummon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Daddy%E2%80%99s+Little+Girls+On+the+Perils+of+Chastity+Clubs%2C+Purity+Balls%2C+and+Ritualized+Abstinence&rft.jtitle=Frontiers%3A+A+Journal+of+Women+Studies&rft.au=Fahs%2C+Breanne&rft.date=2010-09-01&rft.pub=University+of+Nebraska+Press&rft.issn=0160-9009&rft.volume=31&rft.issue=3&rft.spage=116&rft.epage=142&rft.externalDBID=n%2Fa&rft.externalDocID=243644064

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