Following her festival, a young woman began to prepare for marriage. Once a man had married, he was considered to be in training for his future as an educator of young women. xxvideo Their virginity, however, was inviolate. There was no denying that young girls wanted to express themselves sexually; it was obvious that either they would do so for the benefit of unscrupulous and possibly dangerous individuals who cared primarily about how many dollars they could wring from these nubile young bodies, or else American fathers would step up to preserve the precious resource of their daughters’ sexuality and keep it in the families, towns, and the country that had invested so much in making American girls the amazing examples of healthy sexuality they were.
