Teens wear a ring to symbolize their purity Nearly 25,000 American teens have taken the vow of chastity with the group, Silver Ring Thing. The ring is worn like a wedding ring to symbolize their vow of chastity.
Silver Ring Thing is part of an abstinence organisation, who hopes to persuade hundreds of their peers to swear a pledge to purity, put a ring on their finger to prove it, and ask God to help them remain chaste until marriage.
"I"ve been wearing the ring for about 7 years now," said D.J. Shooter, a sophomore at Yale University, who first slipped it on his finger at age 12. The football player said he and his girlfriend of four years agree sex is something to hold for marriage.
He also admits it"s not always the easiest decision to uphold. "There"s a lot of times where you can kind of get caught up in the moment, a lot times I"ll just kind of rub it or see it and it will remind me of the commitment that I made with my girlfriend," said Shooter.
美國(guó)的大約2萬(wàn)5千名青少年為貞節(jié)立下誓約，組成了團(tuán)體，銀戒指。這就象戴著的結(jié)婚戒指一樣，象征著她們對(duì)于純潔的誓言。
銀戒指是一個(gè)節(jié)欲組織的一個(gè)部分，他們希望勸說數(shù)以百計(jì)的同齡人為純潔立下誓約，把戒指戴在手指上來(lái)做出證明，讓上帝幫助他們保持貞潔，直到結(jié)婚。
“現(xiàn)在我大約已經(jīng)戴了7年戒指了，”耶魯大學(xué)的一名二年級(jí)學(xué)生，D.J. Shooter說，他是在12歲時(shí)把戒指戴上手指上的。這個(gè)足球運(yùn)動(dòng)員說和他交往四年的女朋友都認(rèn)為性是來(lái)支撐婚姻的。
他也承認(rèn)，維持它不是很容易的決定。“有許多次，你能在那個(gè)時(shí)刻碰到它，很多次我能摸到看到它，提醒著我和女朋友的承諾。”Shooter說。
When the teens take the pledge they"re not making it alone. They can go to a rock concert event sponsored by Silver Ring Thing, with loud music, flashy lights and the chance to buy T-shirts and other memorabilia to generate enthusiasm for their pledge.
Do their pledges stick? A Columbia University study of 12,000 teens found 88 percent of those who took an abstinence pledge had sex before marriage. And those who did were 20 percent less likely to use a condom.
But The Silver Ring Thing"s director, Denny Pattyn, is convinced his message of faith, purity and chastity will hit home.
"When you"re in a tempting or compromising situation, it"s one thing to have made a pledge, it"s a second thing to have put on the ring, but there"s a third thing that comes from inside," says Pattyn.
"And we believe the faith component is the final strength you have when you"re in the most compromising situation."
當(dāng)這些人在立誓約時(shí)，他們不是孤獨(dú)的。青少年們參加銀戒指發(fā)起的搖滾音樂會(huì)，那里有高聲的音樂，閃爍的燈光和有機(jī)會(huì)買到與名人或重大事件有關(guān)的T恤衫和其他紀(jì)念品，能夠使他們產(chǎn)生立下誓約的積極性。
他們的.誓言能堅(jiān)持嗎?哥倫比亞大學(xué)對(duì)于12000名青少年的一項(xiàng)研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，立下誓約88%的青少年在結(jié)婚前是有性行為的，20%的使用過不止一個(gè)避孕套。
但銀戒指的組織者，Denny Pattyn確信，他對(duì)于諾言，純潔和貞節(jié)的信念會(huì)深深的記在心中。
“當(dāng)你處在一個(gè)被誘惑或容易妥協(xié)的情形時(shí)，已經(jīng)做過保證是應(yīng)第一個(gè)想到的，第二想到的是，已經(jīng)戴上了戒指，但是你心中深處的想法是第三個(gè)來(lái)到的。”Pattyn說。
“而且我們相信，當(dāng)你在最容易妥協(xié)的時(shí)候，信念的成分是你最后的力量。”
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