I remember when I was in high school, and I heard about teens taking “virginity pledges” and I was kind of blown away. Not that I think all high school kids should be having s^x (because a lot of them probably shouldn’t), but the whole idea just seemed really backward to me. Why is it anyone else’s business what a teenager does or doesn’t do?
Well, apparently, this kind of thing is still around. And this story also has a twist to it which makes this whole thing pretty hilarious.
A guy named Andrew Bellinger shared a photo on Twitter of a “Virginity Card” that he was forced to sign in middle school back in 2008. The kicker? The virginity card also doubled as a coupon for Domino’s Pizza. Ha! Amazing! (By the way, I really don’t think kids in middle school should be sexually active, but this is absurd).
it's that time again where I remind everyone in lieu of sex ed in middle school I was forced to sign a real virginity card that doubled as a domino's pizza coupon pic.twitter.com/GOBQfe2l2y
— Andrew (@AndrewBellinger) December 21, 2019
So I guess the gist was that you could save your soul AND get a pizza and some breadsticks at the same time. Genius!
Here’s some advice from the booklet that Bellinger kept from middle school.
Fuck this book
(not literally I still want that pizza) pic.twitter.com/uovxCpDemf— Andrew (@AndrewBellinger) December 22, 2019
Here’s some more from that infamous booklet.
It’s worth noting that
1) I went to a public school
2) we did this again in hs (sans coupon?) but weren’t required to sign – I believe partly because there was a girl in my class who had just given birth pic.twitter.com/S3qMLUeFo9— Andrew (@AndrewBellinger) December 22, 2019
Bellinger’s tweets went viral in a huge way and other people remembered they had to do similar pledges when they were younger.
when they made me sign mine saying I wouldn’t have s^x until marriage, I added an e to the end of my last name as if this would make it legally void
— Blake © ™ ® (@NeilNevins) December 21, 2019
This person remembered that their parents had to sign it, too…that’s kind of weird.
I had to sign a no-sex-until-marriage contract that my folks had to co-sign…at a public school. Oh, and the baby-think-it-over. Yeah, a number of my classmates ended up pregnant…
— Bamma Jo (@bamma_jo) December 22, 2019
This guy noted that Domino’s probably realized they wouldn’t actually have to part with too many free pizzas.
when they made me sign mine saying I wouldn’t have s^x until marriage, I added an e to the end of my last name as if this would make it legally void
— Blake © ™ ® (@NeilNevins) December 21, 2019
And then there were those who responded with their thoughts about just how ridiculous this idea is and was…
Your s^x life is between but three people: You, God, and the Domino’s employee that you show this coupon to
— Megan the Snowman ☃️ (@BatmegsReturns) December 22, 2019
Maybe they actually were sniffing oven cleaner…
…..what in the name of all that’s holy….who sits at a dominoes marketing meeting and goes “hey you know what we should get our name on? Virginity pledges, they’re all the rage!”
“Bob have you been sniffing the oven cleaner again?”
— firechild (@firechild) December 22, 2019
Did you have to do something like this when you were younger? And if so… why?!?!
If so, tell us about it in the comments!