{"id":191639,"date":"2009-07-16T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/16\/ihymen\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T18:44:00","slug":"ihymen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/16\/ihymen\/","title":{"rendered":"iHymen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, someone has <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img269.imageshack.us\/img269\/4733\/purityringiphoneapp0015.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"350\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2009\/jul\/14\/iphone-purity-pledge-apple\">released an iPhone &#8216;purity ring&#8217; application<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The iPhone has applications for almost everything, from helping people to choose the best wine for a meal to locating supermarkets in Holland. Now there is one to help them to stay chaste until marriage.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would note that people who take purity pledges are more likely to engage in oral sex, anal sex, unprotected sex, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">parenthood<\/span>, so the mind boggles at what sorts of risky behavior that this application will engender.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministing.com\/archives\/016717.html\">Jessica Valenti<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, someone has released an iPhone &#8216;purity ring&#8217; application: The iPhone has applications for almost everything, from helping people to choose the best wine for a meal to locating supermarkets in Holland. Now there is one to help them to stay chaste until marriage. For just 59p, consumers can download an application that allows them &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1075,982,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-sex","category-stupid","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}