A new reality TV show is highlighting the difficulties faced by teenagers who have to take a vow of chastity due to their religious parents.
One participant in the show (on Lifetime) is a young woman called Korby Koloff. She is the first teenager to feature in the Preachers’ Daughters television show. The show is based around the idea that the daughters of religious preachers have a hard time balancing the pressures of normal everyday life as a teenager in modern society with the pressures of living the chaste life of a religious leader’s daughter.
The show focuses on the wellbeing of these young girls as they battle to find their own sense of sexual wellness, despite the pressures in both directions. One quote that is used frequently in the show is a Bible verse from 1 Thessalonians 4: ‘For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that you abstain from sexual immorality’.
Following three Christian families which are headed up by pastors, the show looks into the ways in which the teenage girls are discouraged from having sex.
Korby, like most normal teenagers, is keen to go out on dates. At the age of 16 she feels that it is an appropriate time for her to be allowed to go out with male companions on dates. Her father, however, feels that she should not go on dates, as he does not approve of the dating lifestyle. Korby’s issue is twofold though, as she also has a mother who is a preacher. In addition to this, her mother works in a crisis pregnancy centre for Christians and works as a radio talk show host for a Christian station. The mother, Victoria, encourages her daughter to sit through a ‘sex talk’ at church where she preaches abstinence in graphic sexual detail. In the middle of all this, Korby’s sister drops the bombshell that she was not a virgin on her wedding night. The show follows the trials and tribulations of this, and two similar, families as they attempt to find a middle ground between what modern life dictates and what the extremes of Christian religion dictate.
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