I agree with you, Marlo. Very creepy! I don’t even know why the question was asked, to tell you the truth… That’s just me.

JUST ANOTHER WAY OF HELPING GIRLS UNDERSTAND THEIR ROLES AS A NO-SEX OBJECT WHILE THEIR DADS AND OTHER MALE RELATIVES GO OUT AND HAVE ALL THE SEX THEY WANT.. WITH NON-VIRGINS..MARLO, I STILL LOVE YOUR ‘FREE TO BE, YOU AND ME’. WOULD THAT ALL OTHERS COULD HEAR IT NOW…

I’d never heard of such a thing as a “purity ball”! I was a hippie in high school, didn’t go to any of that ceremonial la-ha, and glad even today that I didn’t. Cheers.

You’ll just get bored, James. Lucky you did’nt attend.

I never heard of this till now - eeeewww! Thank GOD my father was an absent alcoholic! If I had to celebrate my virginity with daddy - I’d need to be drunk. Beyond creepy :/

Beyond creepy this smacks of incest and the oppressive “women as property” ideology of centuries past. Whether it’s fathers, husbands or whatever, it is WRONG!!! A young woman’s sexuality is her own business and not the business or the property of her father or any man for that matter. Why is it that this shit doesn’t happen anywhere else in the world and it is always this crazy evangelist that have these whacked out, oppressive ideas? What are they afraid of that they feel compelled to impose their lunacy on everyone else especially where women and sex are concerned? Marlo, if you or any of your colleagues can shed some light, I’d really like to know.

Well Girls,

This is a very busy week but there are two posts, that I’d like to comment upon and this is one of them.

My Dad was special. Perhaps, I’m biased, but he was the best Daddy in the whole world. Ms. Thomas, I remember watching your Dad on television, when I was young and the programs were new. I, "loved," Earl Hagen’s theme style orchestration of, "Danny Boy." [Ooops, off on a tangent.]

How many little girls were taken to the Golden Gloves matches? How many budding teenage girls had Dad act as chauffeur to save their date some money? How many girls saw their Dad with little tears in their eyes, almost falling, on their Wedding Day? How many girls had their Dad tell them, "I don’t care what day or what time. If you need me, call me?" How many girls had their Dad take them to the Ball Park (Offerman Stadium - Buffalo N.Y.) so they could see Satchel Paige pitch and they had an earlier alarm the next morning? How many Dads got up extra early on Sunday, so their, "I can do it, Dad!," girl didn’t get soaking wet delivering the extra heavy Sunday papers? How many girls had their Dad keep silent with criticism when teaching them how to play (Contract) Bridge? How many girls, whose Dad’s, "loved," Westerns let their, "Little Girl," (in High School by now) watch Fred Astaire on television? (Mom loved it, too.). Early in my marriage, how many Dads drove over eight hours through two States, so they could visit their daughter (instead of the telephone) when she was, "Homesick."

How many Dads would go without something so their, "Little Girl," could get a new dress for a, "special date?"

He’s been, "gone," quite a while, now, (Alzheimer’s complications.) but my Dad was so special.  He and my Mom are always in my Daily Prayers.

Yes, I was blessed with a great, very special Dad (and Mom, too.)

"Missy," Susan Pauline Bauer