Assignment Task: Should people be concerned about "purity balls"?
1. What features, if any, about this cultural practice, clash with the goal of gender equality and female empowerment?
2. Using a psychological standpoint that is centered on women's health and well-being, comment on the practice of purity balls.
3. What are some possible "causes" of this practice? Why is this cultural practice emerging now in the US? (think here both as an insider to the culture and as a scientific critic of the practice)
4. If you believe that this practice is a problem, brainstorm an "intervention" in this process. (If you do not believe this practice to be a problem, explain why).
5. In what ways is your intervention "culturally sensitive"? (So as not to alienate insiders to the culture). In what ways is your intervention it not culturally sensitive?
6. Would "purity balls" for boys ever become prevalent? Why or why not?