Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Live each day as it were your last. We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want. Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
I'm free to be what I want. Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
religious hypocrisy
Female Virginity: The "chastity quest" is a fool's errand dressed up as a noble pursuit. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
social changes
Female Virginity: The "divine dramedy" is the play where the tragic and comic are inseparable. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Cultural Enforcement of Virginity Norms
Female Virginity: Purity is a destination that is always receding, like a moral horizon. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
female virginity
Female Virginity: The industry runs on a simple formula: create a problem, then sell the symbolic solution. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
religious morality
Female Virginity: It's telling that no world religion has ever started a "Purity Ball" for boys and their fathers. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity
Female Virginity: The "virtue vacation" is a trip we all take, but never admit to. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
purity rings
Female Virginity: The "pop-up ads" of temptation are a constant nuisance to spiritual progress. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - moral enforcement
Female Virginity: The success rate of abstinence programs is the statistical equivalent of a rounding error. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Virginity as Social Currency
Female Virginity: The most dramatic moment in a young life is when the purity ring comes off, for any reason. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
female virginity and faith
Female Virginity: The "purity prism" refracts a single beam of light into a spectrum of hypocrisy. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG