It may be just me, but these photos take my mind to a weird place.
Any Mormon connection?

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151021-purity-balls-the-girls-who-pledge-abstinence

There are 5 and 7-year-olds pictured. Wut. :|

And they pledge their virginity to their fathers until they marry. But of course there's no purity balls for boys.

@ The OP- These tend to be an evangelical or fundie type of event. Colorado Springs is a Mecca for this sort of activity.

Why doesn't anybody seem to care about BOYS keeping their wicks stowed? By definition, that's HALF the problem.

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These infuriate me. Hell, I'm mad a lot these days. Also, the pictures look like prom or engagement pictures, sick.

Yeah, some of the poses look rather "intimate". Um...makes you wonder...shiver. So gross.

It makes me think of these pictures with Warren Jeffs and his child bride:
https://www.tumblr.com/search/merrianne%20jessop

Exactly my thoughts.

I thought exactly the same thing, Brandywine, about the pictures reminding me of Warren and his child brides.

brandywine Wrote:
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> It makes me think of these pictures with Warren
> Jeffs and his child bride:
> https://www.tumblr.com/search/merrianne%20jessop

I think extreme religion is all the same, that's why we can see the similarities.

Gawd he looks like a fish on ice.

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But I'm guessing that they didn't really know how to "set up" a proper father-daughter pose, and just used the standard prom/wedding type poses.

Still, most of them made me feel uncomfortable. Take your hands off her hips, Dad. Don't use the picture with the closed eyes. Don't wrap your arms all the way around.

I possess two of these thanks to a product called "Comfy Boys."

No joke. Clean. Dry. Comfy (of course) and PURE!

http://www.comfyboys.com/Store/

Lol!

True :)

I have purity 'balls' after I wash them in the shower.

Lol!

Along the same line: “CERTIFICATES OF PURITY”

"By now you have likely heard about the increasingly viral story of Brelyn Bowman and her father, Pastor Mike Freeman. Pastor Freeman glowingly shared on social media the fact that his daughter presented to him, on her wedding day, a “Certificate of Purity.” Brelyn wrote on Instagram that she “present[ed] a certificate of purity to [my father] signed by my doctor that my hymen was still intact.” This fact — that Brelyn has an intact hymen — is the evidence used to demonstrate that she preserved her “purity” until her wedding day."

https://homeschoolersanonymous.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/what-do-certificates-of-purity-communicate-to-sexual-assault-survivors/

Good lord. I would be mortified if my dad asked or talked about my hymen! Are we living in the Crusades? Let's just give out chastity belts and call it good.

Why not a tattoo?, the certificate and anatomy. Then daddy pats her on the head and says, "Good dog, I mean daughter." It's all so incest-vibe.

Abstinence only ed is a proven failure. Kids should have more, accurate info, so they are prepared for every situation. Ignorance is irresponsible, and can be dangerous.

What kind of fucking unscientific bullshit is that? Most girls' hymens are gone by the time they're in their mid-teens. It just disintegrates.

These images deserve their own category on the "Awkward Family Photos" site:

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

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Those pics make me wanna throw up.

Taking photos of fathers pawing over their young daughters is sick.

Half of the photos have some sort of phallic symbol in the background. Flagpole, water tower, oil pump.

Bahaha! I love ACDC.

The cult of virginity, the girl belongs to her father as property, the reason she must remain "pure" is so that dad may collect the bride-price. All biblical. All bullshit.

You know. I was just looking at this thread title in the list and I had an idea.

At Christmas, I make several hundred cookies, package them up into little assorted goody bags, and personally deliver them to friends on the Solstice. Last year, I made rum balls that I'd covered in chocolate and I called them "Satan's Choco Salty Balls."

I think this year, I'm going to make vanilla cookie balls with vodka or some white liquor and maybe douse them in white chocolate and powdered sugar. Then I'ma call them Purity Balls.

I think Whipped Cream Vodka might work!

Yum!

Isn't it incredible the lengths to which men-controlled society will go to control and limit the sexuality of girls and women.

I think gender-specific chastity belts would be a great seller!

It could be marketed as a viable alternative to female genital mutilation!

I looked at this last night. All I could say was, "Creepy." And where are the guys in all this? Typically male driven stuff, this. It's all the women's fault, isn't it?