LIKE A VIRGIN — Inside America’s Evangelical ‘purity movement’ where teen girls make pledges to their fathers to stay virgins until they get married at black-tie ceremonies

Hannah dances with her father after giving him a symbolic key to her chastity during the evangelical ceremony
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Hannah Lee Powers, 17, pledged to abstain from sex to her father Beauchamp at a ceremony in Louisiana

The Sun
by Charlie Parker
10/11/2018

Excerpt:

TEENAGE girls are swearing off sex at evangelical ceremonies in the US where fathers are given a key to their chastity as part of a purity movement sweeping through the country.

The movement, started in Colorado Springs 20 years ago by believer Randy Wilson and his wife Lisa, has since spread across 48 states and 17 countries.

During elaborate annual Purity Balls, daughters pledge to remain virgins until they get married.

The formal occasion entails the girls dressing up in long white gowns and the fathers wearing smart suits, attending a dinner and dance in scenes that resemble a wedding.

At the ceremony, fathers are given a key, representing their daughter’s chastity, to eventually pass on to their daughter’s future husband.

Both father and daughter then sign a purity contract and the daughters are given a purity ring to wear on their wedding ring finger.

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