Hm. Have to admit, I'm now kind of considering buying this to wear under my (white) wedding dress. Or maybe, better yet, wear it the night before (when my fiance and I plan on engaging in one last night of sinning).

Boy, somebody at the Daily Christian does not know how to use Cafepress. Or they just clicked "Select All" when choosing which objects they could put that on and didn't notice they sell thongs.

I prefer to think it's either one of those over them actually being THAT tacky.

The ad copy that is probably standard for Cafe Press thongs says you can 'share a surprise message with someone'. "Surprise! We're not having sex!" is probably not what the copy editor had in mind.

I think the thong and the abstinence t-shirt with the arrows on the nipples go complement each other well and should be worn together wherever possible. Seriously though, when are they going to come out with a clothing line for guys? Oh, that's right...they can do whatever they want it's just the woman who has to worry about being "pure" on her wedding day.

LOL! Now that's just taking the piss. Seriously... I kinda like it, though. As if no one but a virgin should ever wear white, cuz of course non-virgins are soiled goods. Sod that.

It's getting pretty much like 'sexy schoolgirl' outfits, isn't it? It's like wearing a thong with 'virgin' on it. These little girls and teenagers are pretty much seen as objects anyway, but this is pretty much an odd hybrid of two things: the way society wants them to be hyper-sexual and the way the church wants them to be non-sexual.

Do you know what sickens me about these abstinence programmes? The idea that, once you're married, there's no issue of waiting till you're ready. It's like a command that you WILL have sex ON YOUR WEDDING NIGHT, whether you're ready then or not. You might not be ready. You might rather wait another week or month or year. But these things pretty much say, once the pastor has said some churchy words you owe hubby sex. Talk about a paradox.

why don't those abstince parents just use plian medieval chastity belts and take the key away. here's a nice one: http://www.beepworld.de/memberdateien/members73/dom_odin_2004/keuchheitsgnrtel.jpg

I guess no one took this into mind when white pants became trendy this year. Uh-oh. Everyone who's had sex and isn't married get rid of them now! You haven't earned them!

Not that it's any surprise, but these people don't know the history of the white wedding dress.

Never before have our society's paradoxical views on women's sexuality been expressed so eloquently.

NettleSyrup-
That reminds me of the novel On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan-the bride loves her husband like crazy, but she's totally terrified of sex on her honeymoon...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Chesil_Beach

Put me in a thong and I'd be tempted to be abstinent too. I hate the way thongs feel on my bits.

Virginity does have value! Women should think twice about giving it away for free to pimply-faced 17-year-olds when they can instead auction it on eBay and have enough to pay for four years at Harvard.

You gotta FIGHT... for your RIGHT... to weeeaaarrr WHITE!

Wait... "earn" your "right"? Beyond everything else that's fucked up about this, do these people think that rights are extended only to the worthy? That explains a lot, actually.

You know, thongs aren't necessarily sexual, their original purpose was to hide pantylines. So to be completely fair, there's not really anything ironic or hilarious about it.

I've never understood wearing underwear with clever sayings printed on them - isn't the point of wearing something like that to show off so others can read? It becomes especially problematic when it's one that advocates abstinence? Let me guess: take a guy home, show him your thong and what it says, and you two sit there, hold hands and read the Bible?

If anything else, I'd buy a thong just as a joke ...

Marc

Uh, oh...I got married in a white (well, ivory) wedding gown last year, and I didn't earn it. In fact, I really didn't earn it. Oops. :)

Ha ha. I'm pretty sure if anybody was to see that thong and its great message, it would defeat the purpose of the virtuousness the thong is meant to advertise.

I kind of want to get one, too, and show off how fake-virtuous I am.

Not that it's any surprise, but these people don't know the history of the white wedding dress. - Shiftercat

I was thinking the same thing! Besides the Queen Victoria theory, there's also the idea of the white wedding dress from when most people could only ever afford clothing to be worn repeatedly. A white dress meant it didn't matter if it got soil because you could afford to wear a dress only once.

Kinda the beginning of "Rich Bride/Poor Bride," huh?

It does seem silly to have such a saying printed on their underpants. While one could give them the benefit of the doubt and say it comes from the school of 'put on a nice clean pair of underpants and you'll feel good (or remember the saying printed on them!) all day but somehow I doubt it.....

I have sayings on my underwear. Primark (is there that shop in the USA? It's big over here) have a very, very successful line of boy-style pants with words on the waistband so others can see them. I have some that say 'good enough to eat', one says 'bite me', one says 'miaow'.

I don't see the point in thongs. You may as well just not wear them and it'd be the same.

Lol, what I meant by that is that you may as well go without any underwear. What function, exactly, does that tiny triangle of fabric at the front have? To flatten down your pubes or something?

I can just imagine how the idea for this product came up... "Hmm... I hate VPLs AND premarital sex!!!"

NettleSyrup commented at July 28, 2008 11:10 AM: "As if no one but a virgin should ever wear white, cuz of course non-virgins are soiled goods. Sod that."

I heard that back in medieval Europe, there originally wasn't a white dress custom. A bride typically wore the nicest and cleanest of the dresses she'd also wear for other stuff, whether it was red or blue or green or whatever and whether it was newly sewn or already somewhat stained or whatever. Then a white dress made the statement "my family is so rich that I can afford to get a new dress just for one day and afford to keep it pure white"...

"Do you know what sickens me about these abstinence programmes? The idea that, once you're married, there's no issue of waiting till you're ready. It's like a command that you WILL have sex ON YOUR WEDDING NIGHT, whether you're ready then or not. You might not be ready. You might rather wait another week or month or year."

NettleSyrup commented at July 28, 2008 11:10 AM: Which reminds me of another tradition I saw in an issue of Azizah magazine a few years ago. In some Muslim communities, there's a custom of not mingling with an unrelated member of the opposite sex before marriage and a custom of not having sex with a stranger. A couple follows both customs by having a wedding, continuing to live separately, dating and hanging out and generally getting to know each other (the article quoted someone saying "it's halal dating!"), then deciding whether or not they love each other enough to stay together, then either divorcing or moving in together and having sex. Instead of "don't have sex before marriage, what if he won't marry you?" some of the advice that goes with this is "don't have sex before moving in, what if he wants a divorce instead of living with you?"

sunshine007 commented at July 28, 2008 2:17 PM: "You know, thongs aren't necessarily sexual, their original purpose was to hide pantylines."

I heard one of the other purposes was to be more comfortable for the wedgie-prone. Like if all the fabric in back tends to end up in your butt crack, it's less annoying when that just means a thin strip of fabric than when it means a lot of fabric slid off your cheecks to end up in there too. Hence wearing thongs under jeans.

To quote a very wise woman:

Honey, we all deserve to wear white.

(that's Annie Savoy from Bull Durham and though I know they have no answer I really do wish someone would ask these sanctimonious assholes how, exactly, DUDEZ are "fighting for their right" to wear white?)

Fuck white. Black is much sexier;). And lord knows I've earned the right to wear that!

NettleSyrup: it depends on the construction of the thong. The kind that are a small triangle with strings attached I don't see much point to either. The kind that actually have a strip of fabric running front-to-back are pretty good, though. As with a lot of underwear, the trick is to get well-constructed stuff.

As for messages, if they taken a cue from Smart Ass and put the message on the back of the thong, that would have been kind of clever -- she flashes "I abstain" at anyone who ogles her while she's crouching. But no, it's on the front... which is sort of like Miss Poppy's WWJD? thong, but without the joke.

LOL@ Zula!

Let's hear it for irony!

There's something a little, I don't know, wrong, about a thong with an abstinence message...Perhaps the heavy petting will start, the girl wearing it will look down and say "Ohhh yeah, I forgot! Sorry, gotta go."

Oops, I messed up the credit placement when quoting! Sorry NettleSyrup!

I'm a little more disappointed in the abstinence gear that tells you: "DON'T BE AN ANIMAL" from the same group. I guess I really am doin' it like they do on the Discovery Channel.

This is too funny. Thanks for pointing it out -- my co-worker Julia just vlogged about it.

You know, thongs aren't necessarily sexual...to be completely fair, there's not really anything ironic or hilarious about it.
Thanks for pointing that out, sunshine007. I get tired of having to say, "No really" to all of the thongmockers. I am a thong fan. I wear 'em for comfort, not for speed. I got introduced to them by a roommate who'd lived in Brazil and was like, "what, you wear underpants with the asses in them? You poor thing," and rushed out and bought me a pair of cute, cozy, cotton jobbers. I never looked back.

That is just way too funny and disturbing. The other message thongs from the same company were equally disturbing: "Daddy's little slut" (gag). Also the tagline "earn your right to wear white" makes it sound like you have to do something (like maybe wear this stupid thong" to earn your right. I thought that abstinence was a lack of action...

That is just way too funny and disturbing. The other message thongs from the same company were equally disturbing: "Daddy's little slut" (gag). Also the tagline "earn your right to wear white" makes it sound like you have to do something (like maybe wear this stupid thong" to earn your right. I thought that abstinence was a lack of action...