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Help[Opinions] Chastity and Purity
What do you think about names like that? Chastity, Purity... since my mind automatically goes right to chastity belts and sexual purity, you might as well name your daughter "Virginity" or "Maidenhead".
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I don't like either. They sound quite sexist to be using in this day and age.
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Where I live, Purity is mushy baby food in glass jars; shouldn't be licked by adults, as it tastes disgusting. I know: I tried.
Chastity is just plain silly. What's the point of trying to map out a child's life like that? If she has twins at age 13 ... ?
Chastity is just plain silly. What's the point of trying to map out a child's life like that? If she has twins at age 13 ... ?
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Especially as sisters it sounds like an overprotective father named them! hahaha That or they were born anc consecrated to the church like they did in the OLD OLD days.
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Ridiculous and cruel. I am not religious and do not believe in such concepts, so I'd never consider using them.
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Those names are virtues not worth using!
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I agree. I can't hear Chastity without thinking of a big, metal chastity belt slung over a woman's body.
Purity is just lame to me. Girls grow up, they have sex, so a name like Purity is going to sound completely ridiculous with time. I suppose you could argue that there are different kinds of purity, which is true, but the one everyone is going to think of is sexual purity. It's unavoidable.
Purity is just lame to me. Girls grow up, they have sex, so a name like Purity is going to sound completely ridiculous with time. I suppose you could argue that there are different kinds of purity, which is true, but the one everyone is going to think of is sexual purity. It's unavoidable.
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Yeah I never cared for Chastity as a name. I always think of "chastity belt". Purity isn't really all that great either.
I do like names like Amity, Felicity, Charity, Faith, Joy, Hope, Verity, ect.
I do like names like Amity, Felicity, Charity, Faith, Joy, Hope, Verity, ect.
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Once I posted that I didn't understand Chastity as a virtue name, since I didn't see why it was virtuous to refrain from sexual intercourse throughout one's lifetime. Someone answered that "chastity" doesn't really refer to total abstention---it refers to abstention from *unlawful* intercourse only. Well, not exactly unlawful, but not approved of by religion---so, in other words, it refers to abstaining from intercourse only from anyone one isn't married to.
But, since I don't believe it's wrong to have sex without being married, and I don't want to imply that I do, Chastity still isn't a name that I would use.
Purity is rather different, though. It seems more open to interpretation than Chastity. Pure in what? Pure in thought? Pure in deed? Pure in what sort of deeds?
I like both names based solely upon their sound.
But, since I don't believe it's wrong to have sex without being married, and I don't want to imply that I do, Chastity still isn't a name that I would use.
Purity is rather different, though. It seems more open to interpretation than Chastity. Pure in what? Pure in thought? Pure in deed? Pure in what sort of deeds?
I like both names based solely upon their sound.
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Purity is marginally better than Chastity since it has other implications that a sexual one, but I agree they're very awkward names.
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