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Category: Technology Author : Kim LaCapria Posted: July 16, 2009
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New “purity ring” app for proud virgins


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You know that creepy movement where mislead pious teenagers pledge to anyone who will listen that they’re saving themselves for marriage?

There’s an app for that. A new “purity ring” app has joined the ranks of silly apps available in the iTunes store. After taking a pledge of chastity, Jesus-happy youngsters are allowed access to an “infinite loop” of an image of a purity ring to display on their iPhone screens- presumably to remind all their gettin’ busy peers to repent and say no to pre-marital hippity-dippity. Yes- people are paying for an application to help circumvent getting laid. Fail.

Developer Island Wall Entertainment indicates that the app- priced at 59p in England and 99 cents in the US- is generally expected to compliment the traditional, much more expensive physical kind of purity ring. Because you can never proudly proclaim your virginity in too many places!

Director of Island Wall Entertainment Henry E Bennett spoke to the media about the inspiration behind the new app.

”This is an exciting opportunity to reach a whole new generation of people on a platform that has never been used to spread this important message.”











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3 Archived Responses to “ New “purity ring” app for proud virgins ”

  1. ITrush
    Jul 16, 2009

    Hmm, I want one of that please! LOL

  2. M Realty
    Jul 16, 2009

    Absolutely hilarious. Go for it kids, I suppose that is the smarter way to go.

  3. John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises)
    Jul 16, 2009

    While I don't necessary fault those who desire to take these purity pledges (unless they're forced to do so by peer pressure), I actually object to them on religious grounds. The underlying theory behind the purity pledge is pretty much a works-based theory, or the idea that if you perform this work, things are well with you. However, not only does this fly in the face of orthodox Christian teaching (in which humans cannot of their own merit favor from God), but the whole idea of making a pledge on your own flies in the face of Matthew 5:33-37, in which Jesus (in the Sermon on the Mount) warns against the taking of oaths.

    Sorry for the length of this, but the whole purity pledge movement bugs me at times, but not for the reasons that it bugs you.