Sentence examples for purity ball from inspiring English sources
But there are other reasons organizers would shy away from the "purity ball" name.
In retrospect, Ms. Carlson, 25, does not believe the purity ball meant much.
He and his wife, Lisa, have written a book, and they sell a "purity ball packet" for $90.
Mr. Wilson said that whatever some of his imitators have done, his purity ball focuses on fathers, not daughters.
"I realised it was a similar ritual to a purity ball – the process of handing your virginity from your father to your new husband," she says.
The Wilsons organized what was considered the country's first father-daughter purity ball 10 years ago, as their oldest girls entered adolescence.
Purity balls simply lay that dichotomy bare.
And Ms. Unruh even counsels some organizers against calling their events purity balls.
No one knows for certain how many purity balls are held nationwide, because they are grass-roots efforts.
It's developed into an entire culture that is also an industry built around abstinence-only education and purity balls.
The Christian Center, which organises purity balls in Illinois, claims it "holds high the banner of purity in the midst of a culture that destroys it".
