re: #11 Simply Sarah

This is just a throwback to an era when a daugther’s intact virginity was a seen as a tradeable commodity.

The tradition of the engagement ring stems from that era, it was a “deposit” on her honor and recompensation in in the event lost her virginity while still engaged and the wedding then did not take place.

But it also shows the degree of obsession that these people have about sex and sexuality: instead of expressing it through extreme promiscuousness, they express it through extreme prudery.