Daughters Pledge Virginity To Dads In These Beautiful, Haunting Photos

There's nothing implicitly wrong with daughters promising their fathers that they will remain virgins until marriage, according to David Magnusson. When the Swedish photographer first embarked on a series of photographs depicting purity balls, however, he was under a very different assumption. Purity balls are formal dances, a sort of prom for dads and their daughters. There, young girls pledge abstinence until they are wedded, and their fathers promise to enforce that pledge. Magnusson photogra...