Purity <> Edgy

Feministing takes attempts to call Purity Balls, and all the notions surrounding them, to task. Edgy to swear fealty to daddy? Isn't this an even more twisted variation of the sandal wearing pastor with the guitar trying to play off Jesus as some sort of hippy? Again, this is a lot lamer and disturbing.

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If girls and women really want to rebel against the sexified pop culture that breeds Britney Spears and The Pussycat Dolls, purity balls aren't the way. In fact, they're just more of the same. 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.

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