OK, to be clearer: virginity pledges and father-daughter balls remind me of the American evangelical Christian community in particular. I'm basing this on Daniel Radosh's Rapture Ready and on Kathryn Joyce's Quiverfull, which mention them as part of that particular end of Christian culture. If I've picked up the wrong impression from these books, I'm willing to be told so.
I do think that purity balls and virginity pledges have some weird though almost certainly unintended overtones: I think that choosing not to be sexually active in one's teens is an entirely valid choice, but I'm a lot iffier about fathers signing pledges on their daughters' behalf, and about peer-pressuring events like The Silver Ring Thing.
I don't have any data whatsoever as to whether actual incest or paedophilia are any more prevalent in Evangelical Christian circles than in the outside world, and I had no intention of implying that they were.
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Date: 2009-09-20 08:46 pm (UTC)I do think that purity balls and virginity pledges have some weird though almost certainly unintended overtones: I think that choosing not to be sexually active in one's teens is an entirely valid choice, but I'm a lot iffier about fathers signing pledges on their daughters' behalf, and about peer-pressuring events like The Silver Ring Thing.
I don't have any data whatsoever as to whether actual incest or paedophilia are any more prevalent in Evangelical Christian circles than in the outside world, and I had no intention of implying that they were.
I hope this clears things up.