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Abstinence pants, because chastity belts are so 17th century
Categories: Teens & tweens, Love & Sex, Playground Bureau
As a parent, you hope your child will have the good sense to wait until they are mature (and hopefully, married to the perfect person you've carefully chosen) to become sexually active.
Of course, you're also hoping they will one day remember to close the refrigerator door all the way and put their dirty clothes in the hamper instead of in a sodden heap in the middle of the floor.
Kmart, home of the blue light special, is offering a piece of apparel (that strangely, is only available for girls) designed to serve as a giant post-it note on the virtues of being virtuous: sweatpants that say, "True Love Waits."
Would-be Lotharios are sure to take a step back and smack their foreheads with an open palm when the bubble font and cheery rainbow graphics on the thigh and backside reminds them of the wise words of MC Hammer, "Can't touch this!"
Personally, I find the purity ring a more straightforward and less open to misinterpretation symbol of abstience than these pants. And what exactly does "true love waits" mean, anyway? Does true love wait for: The weekend? Parents to be out of town? Until after 10 PM? For the third date?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 8)
Sandyone 6-06-2008 @ 2:30PM
They seriously have "True Love Waits" across the ass? These sweats were definitely designed by someone to make money, not by someone actually interested in or knowledgeable about chastity.
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Kira 6-08-2008 @ 11:27AM
it's not across the A$$ Sandy1! were u just immaturely dying 2 say that word? grow up!
Misty 6-08-2008 @ 12:04PM
Actually Kira... and I quote "...smack their foreheads with an open palm when the bubble font and cheery rainbow graphics on the thigh and backside reminds them..." backside meaning.. the back of the pants.. so Sandy was correct.
Larsonater19 6-08-2008 @ 1:46PM
True love waits? The fact of the matter is, that we as humans, have an instinct to find the right mate... Kids are going to continue to have sex younger and younger until we stop pumping them full of human growth hormones. I don't know if any of you have noticed but 13 year old girls now have boobs as big as thier mom! I'll be the first to say that there is no True love waits campaign that is going to keep kids from having sex to early.. Besides... I don't know if any of you had thought you'd found love at 15, but True love can come early.
Ericka 6-09-2008 @ 7:21PM
I have taught True Love Waits Bible studies and purchased purity rings for teenagers. I find this article very saddening, because 1)the author is so totally confused about the purpose of the True Love Waits movement, and 2) so many people who have posted comments on this site have no idea what True Love Waits really is. Google True Love Waits. I think you will find it has nothing to do with "chastity pants"!
Sandyone 6-09-2008 @ 10:40PM
Exactly, Ericka!!!
The comments on this blog entry (and by the blogger) make it so painfully obvious that most people (at least those that read ParentDish) have no idea what chastity is or means. They don't know about chastity within marriage, either. Chastity is not the same as abstinence.
When a girl's rear end has words written across it, it becomes an ass. I used the crass term because that's what's called for, not because I was sneaking on the computer to write naughty words. If Kira knew a bit more about chastity, she'd understand that, too.
The sheer volume of comments by people who are so far off base is a bit worrisome. No wonder we've got problems.
queenoqueens 6-06-2008 @ 2:52PM
They say Birkenstocks are like birth control. Perhaps a pair of those on your kid would suffice.
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juliet 6-08-2008 @ 10:40PM
Right oo on the birkenstocks,the ugliest shoes in the world,a definate libido buster!I'm suprised Germany has a birth rate at all since they are the ones wearing those gross sandles with white socks, ugh!
Laura - DashinFashion.com 6-07-2008 @ 9:08AM
OK, I had to ask my 11 year old on this one.
She said, "Seriously? That sounds so stupid to put on a pair of pants".
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VERYMOODY 6-08-2008 @ 1:33PM
So glad to see you taking advantage of this message board space to promote your own clothing website. How tacky are you?????
CLM 6-07-2008 @ 8:22PM
Does anyone else find this focus on female chastity as creepy as I do? And those father/daughter purity balls (or whatever they are called) - ICK!
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Danielle 6-08-2008 @ 10:30AM
Augh, I do. Those father/daughter balls are absolutely creepy. They also come across as demeaning to me. My mom thought they were a little strange as well.
I say people stop making girls feel bad about "staying pure" and go after the boys, too. I mean, without them, there would BE no sex.
Danielle 6-08-2008 @ 10:39AM
Augh, I do. Those father/daughter balls are absolutely creepy. They
also come across as demeaning to me. My mom thought they were a strange as well.
I say people stop making girls feel bad about "staying pure" and go
after the boys, too. I mean, they play a BIG part in the whole sex thing.
VERYMOODY 6-08-2008 @ 1:19PM
Creepy - yes. And archaic. And tiring to see we are still so backwards, so sexist, so blatantly ignorant.
And another thing that burns my ass is the vacine available for HPV is also marketed (and only available to!) girls, NOT boys. No Human Papiloma Virus WITHOUT the little male darlings!! Male and Female should both get inoculated.
Unknown 6-08-2008 @ 1:53PM
I agree while it is important for people to wait, I feel it should also be important to talk about emotions, safe sex, stds, etc.
And why are all these things aimed at the girls and not the boys? Is this the 50's? People should try to talk to guys about why they should wait as well.
Amber 6-08-2008 @ 1:55PM
To VERYMOODY,
Just to let you know, the HPV vaccine was meant for females because high risk types of HPV cause cervical cancer if left undectected and untreated. While for males, if they have prolonged exposure to high risk types of HPV, nothing happens* except for a less than 1% chance of penile cancer. Where's the money/help in that?
*besides being a carrier
wasabimon 6-08-2008 @ 8:35AM
so stupid......abstinence doesnt work---education does..........
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Lola 6-08-2008 @ 11:16AM
Couldn't have said it better myself. Education is the key.
Rick Howard 6-08-2008 @ 11:59AM
wasabimon -- you obviously do not look at statistics
and obviously you have bought into the garbage that kids are going to do what kids are going to do -- so we should just give them the information to be as safe as possible -- well the ONLY 100% safe sex technique IS abstinence. The pants are stupid -- but teaching and promoting and expecting abstinence is not -- and it DOES work EVERY time it is tried!
Selah 6-08-2008 @ 2:35PM
Actually, abstinence works 100% of the time for those who actually do abstain from sex. In addition, those who obstain from premarital sex also are 100% free from STD's, guilt, bad reputations, pregnancy and have a higher chance of a marriage that will not end in divorce. Handing a kid a condom and saying "you should wait, but we know you can't so here..." is not abstinece training but only sending kids a mixed signal. It's also our society saying "do whatever you want" but not accepting the consequences.