Even if you age up the players from their early to mid teens to early to mid 20’s and made them financially independent, which would make this a rare outlier for purity balls, I would still have issues with this for the other reasons I listed.
One of the only fights I have ever had with my mother on the topic of religion involved a similar issue. The teachings of male headship and female submission to male authority is incredibly coercing and damaging. Add to this the belief that women who have premarital sex are fallen, sinful, or dirty and the full context begins to come into view. Is a woman whose family all believes this, whose circle of friends believe this, whose entire community and social support network believes this, capable of making a free choice? I would say no.
One of the only fights I have ever had with my mother on the topic of religion involved a similar issue. The teachings of male headship and female submission to male authority is incredibly coercing and damaging. Add to this the belief that women who have premarital sex are fallen, sinful, or dirty and the full context begins to come into view. Is a woman whose family all believes this, whose circle of friends believe this, whose entire community and social support network believes this, capable of making a free choice? I would say no.
