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Photographed on assignment for The New York Times and the ITV production of Purity Girls


Brian Brottlund shares a prayer with daughters Rachel, 14, and Elise, 8, during The Father-Daughter Purity Ball at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. The ball, created by Rev. Randy Wilson of the Generations of Light evangelical Christian ministry, aims to make fathers more responsible to their daughters and encourange chastity and social restraint from the girls.



Lt. Col. Terry Lee and daughter Rachel, place flowers below a cross during a "Presentation of Swords" at Rev. Randy Wilson's Father-Daughter Purity Ball. "It's also good for me," Lee, 54, told the New York Times of the idea. "It inspires me to be spiritual and moral in turn. If I'm holding them to such high standards, you can be sure I won't be cheating on their mother."



Rev. Randy Wilson dances with daughter Khrystian, 20, at the ball. "Fathers, our daughters are waiting for us," Rev. Wilson, 49, told the men in attendance. "They are desperately waiting for us in a culture that lures them into the murky waters of exploitation. They need to be rescued by you, their dad."



Rev. Kevin Moore, of Colorado Springs, dances with one of his daughters.



Robert Moore dances with twin daughters Elizabeth, left, and Lauren, 9, during Rev. Randy Wilson's Father-Daughter Purity Ball at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs.



Dance couples spin past the giant cross that puts the evangelical purpose of Randy Wilson's Father-Daughter Purity Ball forefront. Guests stayed past the event's midnight end, dancing until Wilson told them to go home.


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