![]() ![]() We know the traditional narrative from this point, the baby-faced Christian Disney star becomes gradually more sexualised, in a series of “all grown up” reveals that bleakly prey on their perceived childhood innocence, until they end up at an extreme caricature of sexuality - whether that be unhealthy relationships leading to an out-of-control rampage of self-destruction (Britney, Lindsey) or empowerment through sexual emancipation (Miley, Christina, Demi sort of). A purity ring not only announces elective chastity, but sullies those that don’t make the same choice. ![]() At 13-years-old Selena Gomez proudly wore a purity ring to announce that now she had started thinking about sex, and dating fellow virginal Disney star Nick Jonas, she was not going to be having any. In a typically warped reflection of these attitudes to sex, one of the only ways we’re willing to recognise that children have sexual urges is by stifling them.
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