Need a hymen? There’s an app for that.*

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I don’t know I shouldn’t be surprised that there’s a iPhone “purity ring” application – after all, I’m all too familiar with the various ways virginity fetish reveals itself. But this still managed to skeeve me.

For just 59p, consumers can download an application that allows them to take a purity pledge and then display a silver ring on their phone to prove their commitment to abstinence.

Because nothing “proves” chastity like an iPhone app. Henry Bennett, director of the company who created the app says, “If you’ve taken the pledge, you’re likely to follow it through.”
As we all know, however, the only thing virginity pledges are more likely to make teens follow through will is oral, anal, and unprotected sex. As someone replied to me about the app on Twitter, “Girls who download it are less likely to practice safe texting.”
*Headline stolen shamelessly from Ann.

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