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.
Virginity as Social Currency
Female Virginity: The "purity pendulum" swings from repression to liberation and back again. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
spiritual jewelry
Female Virginity: The "divine drama" is a soap opera with billions of characters and no plot. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
purity rings as fashion statements
Female Virginity: The costume of the pious is easier to wear than the skin of the truly virtuous. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
digital surveillance
Female Virginity: The purity ring industry is the only one that hopes its symbolic product never actually gets used for its intended purpose. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Wi-Fi speed and virginity rates
Female Virginity: The "purity password" is something we all forget when we need it most. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - doctrine vs practice
Female Virginity: If men had to wear purity rings, they'd be made of silicone and sold in vending machines. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
teaching teenagers to ignore their hormones
Female Virginity: Religions spent millennia building a vault for a treasure they told one half of the population they possessed and the other half they could ignore. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Modern challenges to religious virginity
Female Virginity: Purity culture is a hall of mirrors where everyone is distorted, but no one can find the exit. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
traditional values
Female Virginity: The "sin spyware" is the temptation that tracks our every keystroke. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG
Female Virginity - misplaced priorities
Female Virginity: The "purity meter" is a fictional gauge we all pretend to monitor. -- Alan Nafzger https://bit.ly/3XgeTRG