Virginity Checks

@Ms_Lila @Nurse_Phillips @Dahiana @Rigel

I think the picture she referenced was the link in @Ms_lila's post, not her avatar.

I was referring to Ms Lila's Avatar in my post. I think it is great. I could not think why anyone would consider it creepy.

My Mouse has a click wheel and I have a small laptop screen. It passed by the link to the picture entirely. So that was a big omission of information.

I went back to the post by @Ms_Lila and looked for the link. I found it. Purity Balls. It is a creepy picture alright.

Fathers come within a hair's breadth of marrying their daughters to protect them from outside temptation and keep them pure, innocent little girls.

I have seen this Purity Culture and Purity Ball business in a movie. I was so disgusted I switched it off.

It is a Christian religious cult and that's what they get up to. To them, it is all just perfectly fine. It is their lifestyle.

Not something I would take part in.

In the movie, I watched they were visiting High Schools and recruiting young people. That I think should not be allowed.

As long as there is freedom of Religion they are not going anywhere.

that she was sent to a Catholic boarding school in Germany in her teens and that upon graduation, she not only received her degree, but also an affirmation that upon graduation she had been found to be a virgin. This was to show that the nuns/institution in whose care she had been placed, had carefully taken care of her and protected her from the onerous temptations of the world.

That was also probably a way of ensuring that the priests didn't take advantage of the girls there, and swear them to secrecy.

In Norway children and teen are often subjected to a procedure to assess weather he/she is subjected to child abuse, do things together with other kids or with him/herself not approved by the society or have interests not regarded as age-appropriate or socially appropriate.

What is done is a general physical exam, a more specific exam of the genitals and anal region and a forensic interrogation. The intimate exam is in fact a virginity check plus a lot more than just that.

One also take specimens form all body areas, and every part of the young person is photographed, and the pictures are stored for future use.

Any kind of unusual behavior, unusual meanings, or unusual interests can lead to such a procedure.

The procedure is typically done in special clinics called "Statens Barnehus", which literally means "The child houses of the state" which is run as a cooperation between the police, the health service and the child protective agencies.

These procedures and establishments are not even held secret. In fact the state are advertising it to the public as if to make young people and parents used to and accept that the state shall see and know everything about the kid and the family.

But in addition to the admitted and even advertised procedures, I am sure young people are also used as research objects and subjected to more extended procedures not told about, and hided by use of anesthesia, either inside these "child houses" or at cooperating clinics.

That exam sounds like abuse itself!

That was also probably a way of ensuring that the priests didn't take advantage of the girls there, and swear them to secrecy.

In the period I was describing, the fact that girls were in a boarding school, meant that they were kept in school, during mass, going to confession, on a rare outing, with some kind of chaperone present. There would have been one or more nuns/teachers or whatever present so that situations could not arise where no doubt could be cast on the students not having been properly supervised.

If you want to cast aspersions on priests, then look to their housekeepers or perhaps altar boys. They would have posed easier opportunities and if found out, caused less controversy, than tupping girls from bourgeois families, some with presumably wealth and high standing in society.

In Norway children and teen are often subjected to a procedure to assess weather he/she is subjected to child abuse, do things together with other kids or with him/herself not approved by the society or have interests not regarded as age-appropriate or socially appropriate.

I don't like saying it but this system may have saved me a lot of grief.

If you want to cast aspersions on priests, then look to their housekeepers or perhaps altar boys.

We could certainly do that. Bet we could uncover a lot of things most people would not expect too.