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The Purity Test: Your Filth and Depravity Cheerfully Exposed by 2,000 Nosy Questions
By the early 80s, kids were already trawling the message boards of the Internet for perverse kicks. Well before Star Ways Kid or "flash mobs," one of the first online fads was the "Purity Test," a series of questions to rate your moral purity, from the raunchy ("Ever had sex in your parents' bedroom?") to the absurd ("Ever snorted cocaine off the dashboard of a car doing 80 mph?"). The tests would be printed out, brought to school, and pored over with friends in the back of the gym during recess. Then kids would modify the original with their own prurient additions before sending it along. Eventually, the tests became bloated thousand-question Franken-tests that took hours to complete. Doing the test with friends was like playing an endless, filthy, wildly enlightening game of "Did You Ever?"--and because it was a standardized test, you could compare your scores. Assuming everyone was being honest--which they weren't. The Purity Test by Joselin Linder will offer both a humorous history and analysis of the Purity Test as well as several versions of the test to take at home.
240 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
About the author
Joselin Linder
8 books50 followersJoselin Linder is a regular contributor to the NEW YORK POST, whose work has also been featured on THIS AMERICAN LIFE, MORNING EDITION and LIFE OF THE LAW. She spoke at the TEDX GOWANUS event in Brooklyn in 2014, presenting for the first time on the subject of her family gene and the deadly illness to which it leads. Exclusive to just fourteen people, the story of the gene will be told in Linder’s new book, THE FAMILY GENE, coming out in 2017. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two dogs.
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May 18, 2016
Well, it isn't the original 100 question purity test but then that one swung in favor of gay people being more impure. I was so vanilla back then and I got like a 42. Anyway, this is a fun thing to do with good friends maybe at a party, although you could never get through all the questions in one evening if you had more than one or two people.
February 18, 2009
Actually is a perfect arbiter of purity...
August 12, 2010
Have you ever read 2,000 filthy questions? How about written them?
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