Was scouring through the net and stumbled on this hilarious article. As unrealistic as it sounds, it's not a bad idea. Maybe rather than the 'ball' thingy which doesn't sit well with our Nigerian culture, we will just call it 'PURITY VOWS'!
Before I go ahead and post the article, I would like to correct a piece of information in my last article "GONE WITH THE WIND (A TRIBUTE TO A FRIEND) where I wrote that my lovely friend Issy was shot in her sleep ( though it won't bring her back to life and with no intent to make her monster husband look 'good' in the public eye). Information came to me via mail from a true and accurate source, that she wasn't shot in her sleep but actually during a extremely heated argument between the couple. THIS IS STILL NOT A JUSTIFIED REASON TO TAKE ANOTHER LIFE!!!
Now the article....
Purity balls have become a phenomenon in America, now taking place in 48 out of the 50 states. A girl pledges to remain "pure" until her wedding day, symbolically "marries" God and promises her father that she will remain a virgin until she's a wife.
The balls resemble giant wedding ceremonies, with the girls - all around the age of 12 - wearing white gowns and dancing with their fathers who promise to "protect" their daughters' chastity.
During the ceremony, fathers present their daughters with purity rings, which they wear to symbolise their commitment to virginity. In the movement, purity means no sexual contact of any kind, including kisses, until after marriage.
The concept of purity pledges exists in over 17 countries and across America, blossoming from the original purity movement that began in the USA in the 1980s. Adolescent members of church groups began taking vows of abstinence and wearing rings to symbolise their commitment as a backlash to the perceived sexual liberation of the past decades and the growing AIDS epidemic.
They soon began wearing rings to symbolise their commitment, but the idea of girls giving their virginity to their father to safeguard until marriage, and the ceremonial purity balls, developed much later in alliance with Evangelical church movements.
*Lol! Nigerian chudren go gree?!*
But my question is, " If the girl wants to get married, how does she break the vow? Does she go through the 'divorce' process?!"
#justasking
Very nice idea.
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