“Purity Balls” are a new Christian ceremony in America that has all the characteristics of a wedding, including white gowns, dinners, and speeches where young women in white dresses, escorted by their dads, are symbolically marrying God and pledging abstinence until marriage in a new trend sweeping America’s Christian communities.
When Talented Swedish photographer David Magnusson first read about the so-called ‘purity balls’ he imagined angry fathers ‘terrified of anything that might hurt their daughters’.
But when he started photographing the girls and their dads for his latest project ‘Purity’, he found out that it was usually the girls themselves who decided to save sex – and even kisses – for marriage.
Checkout the pictures below and see more on David’s website.
