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Two weeks ago, we were all introduced to the Purity Bear via a creepy video that looked like the last-minute submission to a misguided high school film course assignment. Well, according to the makers of this helpful little creature, the Purity Bear has been a rousing success because it has attracted more than a "quarter million" views, never mind the fact that, according to Towleroad, its garnered 1,500 dislikes and less than 200 dislikes. The important thing is that, just as people flock to Michael Bay's movies, everyone's watching the Purity Bear in action! My only concern is that I'm not sure how knowledgeable a sexless stuffed animal is about human sexuality. I mean, it's easy for the Purity Bear to be pure because it doesn't have any sex drive and I'm not convinced that it realizes that we're not all made of out synthetic fibers and Christian abstinence. More »
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Hey guys, have you met The Purity Bear? He's a plush toy who appears to tempted teens and warns them without moving his mouth that going inside a girl's house will inevitably lead to sex having, and sex having before marriage is literally the worst decision you could possibly make. More »
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The new Republican candidate for Senate in Delaware is known best for her positions on sex: She is a devout Catholic, chaste, anti-masturbation, pro-abstinence-only sex ed, anti-condoms and anti-porn. But Christine O'Donnell didn't grow up in a strict religious household. More »
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Chastened, Hephzibah Anderson's memoir about her year of celibacy, reveals a deep confusion about how to live and love in a (sort of) sexually liberated world. It left us wondering: how come dudes never write books like this? More »
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Victor LaValle's account of his two years of (almost) celibacy — alleviated occasionally by phone sex — makes the case that not getting any will drive you crazy. But actual lack of sex may matter less than just plain loneliness. More »
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Meet "Secret Keeper Girls." It's kinda like American Girl. If American Girl was focused on modesty, God's Plan, and staying pure. More »
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• Eric Ienco, Madonna's former house manager and cook, alleges that Madonna's kids are lucky if they get to spend a half an hour a day with her; "It's a puzzle she wants to adopt again."

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Leslee Unruh is the President of the Abstinence Clearinghouse and Executive Director of Vote Yes for Life, which spearheaded the efforts to ban abortion in South Dakota. She's also dabbled in crisis pregnancy centers, mobile crisis pregnancy centers and even a home where unwed mothers can live rent free. These days, while keeping her toes in the anti-abortion movement, she spends much of her time trying to convince girls not to give it up until their wedding nights. She is committed, convincing and on the opposite side of pretty much every issue as me and Amanda Robb, the author of Unruh's More magazine profile. More »
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In the UK, a 14-year old girl has been tossed out of school for wearing a bracelet. Thing is, she's Sikh. And the bracelet, a Kara, is a part of her faith. Her school says the bangle stands in violation of their dress code, which prevents not only the wearing of jewelry, but also the wearing of any accessories that would announce one's religion. (Earlier this year, a Muslim student was denied the right to wear her head scarf and a Christian student, was told by England's high court that she didn't have the right to wear a ring that served as a token of her chastity pledge.) More »
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Adriana Lima's ability to sell bras? Old news. Adriana Lima's virginity? Also old news. Adriana Lima's ability to sell virginity? Now that's a new one! FOXNews.com quotes 20-year old Kate Jones as saying, "Thanks to Adriana, all my friends and I are advocating chastity. We believe a lot of young girls have forgotten how to respect themselves, and it's about time we went back to some old-fashioned values." Since when was "old-fashioned values" synonymous with "half-naked underwear models who once dated Derek Jeter"? [FOXNews.com] More »
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Am I alone in having fear put into my heart by those Gardasil commercials that tell me that I am definitely going to get human papillomavirus and die of cervical cancer? After all, 50% of Americans have HPV and 80% of American women will have contracted it by age 50, and, of course we're all aware of the fact that condoms don't do shit to help protect us from the virus — a little thigh-on-thigh action is all we need to become a statistic. Except: Now the Seattle Times has to come along and upped the ante: New studies have found HPV under the fingernails of men. Great! But what if we want to actually leave our homes and engage in, you know, real, live human contact? The poll that could save all of our cervixes, after the jump. More »
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