EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW. (flash post)
Oh, dear. I've just watched a short documentary (Zone Interdite) on the trend of chastity in the USA. I stumbled upon it and decided to watch the whole thing. That was painful and hysterical. Reading about it is one thing, listening and watching is another (I swear when they started showing people praying in a very excited way, I stepped back). These people are nutjobs. I don't mind wanting to wait but they make such a big deal out of it, it's completely ridiculous.
But they are evangelists for the most part, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
First strike, the Purity/Chastity ball. (which is a ball only by name). Said ball is being organised by a mother who loves firing guns with her children. That's actually quite normal in the USA. Guns are good but sex is bad. (Guess which one is more dangerous than the other ?) It's a ball for girls only, and their dancing partners are their dads. Then, there's a creepy ceremony between father and daughter, in which the father literally vows to stick his nose into every aspect of her daughter's life. He even has a key to her heart. It seriously sound like he was marrying her. (By the way, said daughters were homeschooled ! What a surprise !)(Plus the ball is definitely not middle class.)
To sum up : IM IR UR BALL MARRYIN MAH DAD.
Second Strike, the whole abstinence education-only and 'sex is good only when you're married'. Someone could explain what's the difference between doing the nasty when you're married and when you're not ? Because physically, I can only see one difference : the abstinence-only couple will be very much inexperienced on their honeymoon, their first time is going to be so awkward and probably not enjoyable. That might explain the negative point of view some Christians/Evangelists have. (Like I say 'If the guy's never touched it, then I'm not touching it !) There's no other difference, the sex is not going to be magically better once you're married !
And I love how the arguments of the abstinence-only crowd are easily debunked ?
" You'll have STDs ! "
Hm. Protection exists. Checking with your partner if he's clean or not too. Having sex != sleeping around.
" You'll be kicked out off your house ! "
I think that being kicked out off your house because you had sex is the least of someone's problems if they have parents who would do that.
" You'll risk having kids."
Contraceptives exists. (Not that a lot of people know about it with the sex ed being abysmal in the US) Abortion exists too. (But I guess they don't like that either.)
" Sex before marriage is BAAAAAAD ! "
That's not an argument.
See ? That's too easy :D
The sad thing is that they are people who buy it. America's so retarded, they're buying their own BS. Besides, statistics proves that 88% of the so-called abstinence crowd don't wait until marriage. So much for being better than the rest ;) And since they haven't been educated about safe sex, they stand as much as risk, if not more, of STDs than the sexually active crowd. I won't talk about pregnancies :D :D :D
Strike three, ew, ew, ew, ew. I gagged. It focussed on a middle age women who decided to have a hymen 'recreated' to please her husband and have a second 'first time' with her husband (she wasn't her virgin when they married.) Ew, ew, ew, ew. I don't have much to say but this is taking it way too far. (And shows just how much the virginity/purity/crowd is obsessed with sex) I mean, who in is right mind would undergo a surgical operation to have her hymen 'recreated' ? This is completely crazy and sickening. Ew, ew, ew, ew !
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It's amazing,though, how modern evangelists and (some) christians managed to be even more radicals and fundamentalists than the christians were one or two hundred years ago. And it's damn funny to see them trying to make people believe than no one had ever had sex before marriage in History :D
But they are evangelists for the most part, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
First strike, the Purity/Chastity ball. (which is a ball only by name). Said ball is being organised by a mother who loves firing guns with her children. That's actually quite normal in the USA. Guns are good but sex is bad. (Guess which one is more dangerous than the other ?) It's a ball for girls only, and their dancing partners are their dads. Then, there's a creepy ceremony between father and daughter, in which the father literally vows to stick his nose into every aspect of her daughter's life. He even has a key to her heart. It seriously sound like he was marrying her. (By the way, said daughters were homeschooled ! What a surprise !)(Plus the ball is definitely not middle class.)
To sum up : IM IR UR BALL MARRYIN MAH DAD.
Second Strike, the whole abstinence education-only and 'sex is good only when you're married'. Someone could explain what's the difference between doing the nasty when you're married and when you're not ? Because physically, I can only see one difference : the abstinence-only couple will be very much inexperienced on their honeymoon, their first time is going to be so awkward and probably not enjoyable. That might explain the negative point of view some Christians/Evangelists have. (Like I say 'If the guy's never touched it, then I'm not touching it !) There's no other difference, the sex is not going to be magically better once you're married !
And I love how the arguments of the abstinence-only crowd are easily debunked ?
" You'll have STDs ! "
Hm. Protection exists. Checking with your partner if he's clean or not too. Having sex != sleeping around.
" You'll be kicked out off your house ! "
I think that being kicked out off your house because you had sex is the least of someone's problems if they have parents who would do that.
" You'll risk having kids."
Contraceptives exists. (Not that a lot of people know about it with the sex ed being abysmal in the US) Abortion exists too. (But I guess they don't like that either.)
" Sex before marriage is BAAAAAAD ! "
That's not an argument.
See ? That's too easy :D
The sad thing is that they are people who buy it. America's so retarded, they're buying their own BS. Besides, statistics proves that 88% of the so-called abstinence crowd don't wait until marriage. So much for being better than the rest ;) And since they haven't been educated about safe sex, they stand as much as risk, if not more, of STDs than the sexually active crowd. I won't talk about pregnancies :D :D :D
Strike three, ew, ew, ew, ew. I gagged. It focussed on a middle age women who decided to have a hymen 'recreated' to please her husband and have a second 'first time' with her husband (she wasn't her virgin when they married.) Ew, ew, ew, ew. I don't have much to say but this is taking it way too far. (And shows just how much the virginity/purity/crowd is obsessed with sex) I mean, who in is right mind would undergo a surgical operation to have her hymen 'recreated' ? This is completely crazy and sickening. Ew, ew, ew, ew !
~~~
It's amazing,though, how modern evangelists and (some) christians managed to be even more radicals and fundamentalists than the christians were one or two hundred years ago. And it's damn funny to see them trying to make people believe than no one had ever had sex before marriage in History :D