Last summer she went with a friend from her hometown of Pittsburgh to a Silver Ring Thing. These popular free events meld music videos, pyrotechnics and live teen comedy sketches with dire warnings about STDs. Attendees can buy a silver ring and a Bible for $12. Then, at the conclusion of the program, as techno music blares, they recite a pledge of abstinence and don their rings. “My friend, who’s also a virgin, said I needed to go so I could get a ring. It was fun, like the music and everything. And afterwards they had a dance and a bonfire.”

more power to you, lenee! why don’t you keep it up all your life, and spare us with your offspring.

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