Talk:Purity Ball

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[edit] Criticism section

Added feminist critique of Purity Balls. --Chalyres 10:44, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Are there purity balls involving mothers and sons, or is it only for daughters? Some statistics on that subject might be insightful --Gargletheape 12:56, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Age range

12.160.185.126 recently added info about the girls' ages (though without sources):

Many of the girls who attend these events, some as young as age 4, many 10 -13, do not really have an understanding of what they are signing, and many of these children come from very insulated communities, even at 18 or 19 they may not have a real understanding of what their sexuality is, before they give it to their fathers.

It would be interesting to know what the typical age range for these events actually are, though the 4yrs claim is no doubt true as an exception. --Andrew Delong 23:25, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Use of word "cover"

Have any of the critics commented on the use of the word "cover", as in "the father promises to cover his daughter"? It is one of the farmyard euphemisms for "to have sex with", as in the ram tupping the ewe and the stallion covering the mare. It seems an odd choice, a word with an ancient sexual history, for such a pledge. BrainyBabe 10:12, 13 September 2007 (UTC)