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Jessica Valenti has a great post today on Feministing taking down the notion that the current resurgence of Religious-Right-inspired modesty is "revolutionary:"
Pop culture tells women that their bodies are public property and that they have to be sexual in order to be desirable and loved. Purity balls and the like tell women that their bodies are private property (though not our own of course--our bodies belong to our fathers, husbands, and the men in our life) and that they have to be virginal in order to be desirable and loved. In either case women's sexuality belongs to everyone but women. There's nothing counter-cultural or cutting edge about that.
Amen. Read the whole post here. And catch up on Feministing's coverage of the incredibly creepy purity ball phenomenon here.
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I wonder if they let you request 2 Live Crew songs from the DJ at the purity ball? For irony's sake? Link
Either way, new research shows that assuming you have good, loving parents, having sex earlier rather than later might actually be *good* for you. Who knew! Link
Now, all we have to do is come up with a rival dance centered around this revolutionary concept, to put those 'purity ball' kids out of business! We should call it "a dance for the Promotion of teens getting laid and the world not ending when they do because they're smart about it", or "Prom", for short.