Purity Balls

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It’s a lot like a wedding, except to your dad. At purity balls, a relatively new Christian religious ceremony that's gaining popularity, American girls (some as young as four) vow to their fathers that they'll remain virgins until marriage.

The formal events tend to include dinner, a keynote speech, and ballroom dancing, and the girls get decked out in, um, white gowns. The father, as "High Priest of their home and family," makes a pledge to protect his daughter's “purity" during the affair. Often, they exchange purity rings.

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