Fathers show daughters that life without sex is fun

With dinner and speeches over, the happy couples took to the floor as the disc jockey opened musical proceedings with a Glenn Miller number.

The men, all in suits and ties, were old enough to recognise the tune, but not so their younger dancing partners in ball gowns and carefully prepared hair. For all the dating couples were made up of fathers and their teenage daughters.

They had come to a Purity Ball, to celebrate the father-daughter relationship and to take home written promises to each other. The girls' pledge said they would remain virgins until marriage, while the fathers vowed to love and protect them. Read more