purity ball
(US) A formal dance event attended by fathers and their teenage daughters to promote virginity until marriage; mostly among conservative Christian groups in the United States.
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(US) A formal dance event attended by fathers and their teenage daughters to promote virginity until marriage; mostly among conservative Christian groups in the United States.
Despite all the coverage of the Wilson family and their balls’ dramatic imagery — the girls doing ballet, placing roses before a cross, ballroom-dancing with their dads — there is little hard evidence that purity balls have spread much b…
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