Pop stars who use chastity as a career move

When I was an up-and-coming newspaper writer, I was assigned to work with a high school intern who talked a lot about how she didn’t want to have premarital sex. Listening to her go on about why she was avoiding “the act” seemed harmless enough. So why did I get uncomfortable whenever she brought up the topic? Because, I later realized, that by talking about not having sex, she was really talking about sex — albeit in a backhanded way.

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Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

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According to the state of California, cutting off your tits and having your clit shaped into a penis can grant you rights to marry the same sex.

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The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual and temporal leader, on Friday said sex spelt fleeting satisfaction and trouble later, while chastity offered a better life and "more freedom."

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"the State Security Forces – mullahs' suppressive police – has added to its chastity patrols to control what it called "immoral behavior." The patrols would stop women on their way to watch the show to check what they wear to the event.

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An increasing number of young American women and girls are attending purity balls with their conservative Christian fathers who promise to protect their daughters' chastity until marriage.

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Contrary to widespread belief, teenagers do not appear to commonly engage in oral sex as a way to preserve their virginity, according to the first study to examine the question nationally.

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Interestingly springing from this interview is the reality of how in our world of freedom of choice and expression, many of the same ones who staunchly uphold this right in fighting for other so-called liberal rights, are surprisingly quite intolerant of those who express contras …

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i've said it once, and i'll say it again-- this is INFURIATING. so if i'm a woman nowadays, i'm limited to one of two camps, with no rational, non-mob-logic philosophy inbetween? oh NOOOOES!

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You have to be living under a rock not to notice that casual sex, once an expression of a subversive impulse, is now certifiably pop culture. Since the 1960s, sex--like everything from rock music to the psychedelic aesthetic--has been mainstreamed.

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The LDS Church's new pamphlet on homosexuality posted this week on the church's Web site is an improvement on the last three, but doesn't go far enough in embracing those with same-sex attractions, a longtime advocate for gay Mormons said Friday. The piece, titled "God Lovet …

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Understanding Hijab

In a recent very "hot" topic thread here on Newsvine entitled "British Teen Banned From School for Chastity Ring", it was frequently asserted by some that the wearing of the veil or headscarf (hijab) is a fundamental command in Islam, mandated by the Koran and understood as an e …

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As part of an abstinence movement in which young girls promise to save themselves for marriage, fathers are signing a pledge to help their daughters stay chaste. The deal is sealed with a "purity ball," a promlike event where father and daughter celebrate their decision.

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As a Christian schoolgirl takes her school to court in England for stopping her from wearing a ring to denote her virginity, Henry Midgley considers whether such public proclamations of virtue are really a subtle kind of evangelical bullying!

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Teen Girl Banned From School for Chastity Ring Heads to Court Saturday, June 23, 2007 A teenage girl who was banned by her school from wearing a "purity ring" is taking her case to the High Court.

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For many, the idea of staying a virgin in college seems impossible. To others, it's very possible, but hardly necessary. For still others, it's both. This article will examine some of the different standpoints from both sides of the spectrum.

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How do you tell if someone is a virgin? The oldest token, of course, is blood, and anxious brides have inserted everything into their vaginas from ground glass to leeches -- to the blood-filled "bladders of fish and the innards of songbirds, the blood of chickens and ducks and do …

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BERLIN (Reuters) - A new study by German scientists of spiders' copulation techniques found that males leave part of their sex organ inside their female partner as a sort of "chastity belt" to deter rivals.

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More musings on hymens, horniness, choice, and chastity

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"God or the Girl" pits four aspiring young Catholic priests against their libidos during the final four weeks before their decisions to take the church's Holy Orders, with the vow of chastity.

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