I know I know, but it just SOUNDS so wrong...

father-daughter chastity balls? Does anyone else see how filled with double entendres this sentence is?

Besides the creepy pedophiliac innuendo I'm reading into this, for which I'm sure I'd be excoriated by many a Christian for even thinking a Christian could do a such a thing...but anyway

The critics have the last word:

while teaching abstinence to children may be laudable, it is just as essential to make them aware of sexually transmitted diseases and condom use.

They also point to studies showing that the majority of adolescents who take purity pledges break them within a few years, often by engaging in risky and unprotected sex.

One study conducted by researchers at the universities of Columbia and Yale found that 88 percent of pledgers wind up having sex before marriage.

"Unfortunately these young people tend, once they start to have sex, to have more partners in a shorter period of time and to use contraception much less than their non-pledging peers," said Debra Hauser, executive vice president at Advocates for Youth, a Washington-based non-profit organization.

"Teens may pledge with the best of intention... and then as they break their pledges they are so shamed and embarrassed that it's unlikely they will go for help."

So these "daddies" are essentially assisting their daughters to engage in unprotected sex before marriage and not seek help afterwards out of shame and fear. Meanwhile daddy is rummaging through the best of Penthouse 1999 box he keeps in the basement for those nights that "mommy" won't "put out."