Father-Daughter Purity Ball

Scenes from the Father-Daughter Purity Ball, March 2010, at the Broadmoor Hotel. I was not able to get shots of the dance, because I was filming with someone else's camera. So, I decided to quickly make a short video with the clips I had, before I archived the raw footage off my hard drive. Hope you enjoy! Please rate and comment.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Father Daughter Purity Ball
• Broadmoor hotel
• Colorado Springs
• Purity Ball
• gospel

[richard20bris]

I think it's very wrong of (most likely well intentioned) parents to put so much pressure on such young girls. Hopefully, these parents will love their sons and daughters and still consider them to be "pure" whether or not they have sex before marriage.

Sex is very much a human need, and yes while it's good to be sensible about who you have it with, there's no need to consider someone "less pure" just because they can't wait until marriage to have it.

[WeiterInsVerderben]

@DCoonie newsflash: there is no such thing as god

[DCoonie]

@sparkplug333 "my belief is as valid as your belief; my conviction of this truth is as strong as yours" You've made a logically fallacy - you are asserting an absolute truth, that "there is not truth". If my belief that "God is real" is as valid as your belief, why do say that I should "come back to reality". It's like saying "I am intolerant to intolerance". Why don't you want to believe in God? If you don't believe in Heaven, what do you think will happen to you after you die?

[sparkplug333]

@DCoonie i care about you also - so i urge you to consider coming back to reality. in fact, i don't care about your relationship to god - it's your business and i hope heaven is all you dreamed. however i don't believe in god, and my belief is as valid as your belief; my conviction of this truth is as strong as yours. so given the lack of evidence one way or the other - lets leave it up to conscious adult women to make decisions about their sexuality - not their fathers or their priests.

[kiradoyouknow]

Why don't they pledge that they will be educated, informed, and kind? Because the purity movement is still about sex. It's a commodity to be traded from father to husband at marriage. And while we're at it, let's look at some statistics: A federally funded study found that those taught only abstinence "had just as many sexual partners as nonparticipants and had sex at the same median age as nonparticipants.” They're also more likely to have sex without contraceptives.

[spacekozak]

This is such a beautiful idea. I wish there was one in Virginia.

[cxskippy]

Do some of these girls even know what they're pledging to? Some of them don't look a day older than 9. :/

[DCoonie]

@WeiterInsVerderben How do you know?