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Here's my beef with purity pledges, besides the fact that they're usually implemented by a school system in place of effective sex ed and are full of fail (mind you, this is from a perspective of someone who believes in God.)
It attaches unnecessary shame to the act. As if you're not good in God's eyes because you're not "pure." Cue depression.
It encourages that "loophole" behavior (ex: my pledge is still all good even though I went down on Bobby yesterday behind the bleachers. YAY)
I find intimacy to be a personal matter. As such, I generally feel like it's not the rest of the world's business what someone is doing or not doing in the bedroom. So why "pledge" it in front of your school or your parents or your church? It's none of their business. It's yours and God's (if you believe in Him.)
Kids are kids and then there's the whole aspect of "did you hear that Suzy broke her purity pledge last week?! Ew. What a slut." I just find it unneccesary. Kids have enough crap to be worried about being judged over.
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