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{{Short description|Conmitment to refrain from drug usage or sexual intercourse}} [[File:Maine WCTU.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Woman's Christian Temperance Union]] (WCTU) abstinence pledge card in which one promises a lifestyle of [[teetotalism]].]] <!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Abstinence pledge card.jpg|thumb|right|300px|An abstinence pledge card in which one promises to abstain from sexual intercourse until marriage.]] --> '''Abstinence pledges''' are commitments made by people, often though not always [[teenagers]] and [[young adult (psychology)|young adults]], to practice [[abstinence]], usually in the case of practicing [[teetotalism]] with respect to abstaining from alcohol and other drugs, or [[chastity]], with respect to abstaining from [[sexual intercourse]] until [[marriage]]; in the case of [[sexual abstinence]], they are sometimes also known as '''purity pledges''' or '''virginity pledges'''.<ref name="IT1998">{{cite news |title=Taking the pledge gave impetus to historic religious movement |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/taking-the-pledge-gave-impetus-to-historic-religious-movement-1.229347 |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |access-date=23 March 2021 |language=English |date=29 December 1998}}</ref><ref name="VHS1984"/><ref name="Donaldson2008"/> They are most common in the [[United States]] among [[Catholic]] and [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical]] [[Christianity|Christian]] denominations, while others are nonsectarian.<ref name="IT1998"/><ref name="PCPA2005">{{cite web|title=Silver Ring Thing offers lessons in sexual purity|last=Franko|first=John|date=18 February 2005|publisher=Pittsburgh Catholic Publishing Associates|language=en|access-date=6 May 2018|url=http://www.pittsburghcatholic.org/News/silver-ring-thing-offers-lessons-in-sexual-purity|archive-date=7 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507090521/http://www.pittsburghcatholic.org/News/silver-ring-thing-offers-lessons-in-sexual-purity|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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