Sex In The City

Headscarf ? Check.

Bangle ? Check.

Tiny silver ring ? Not on your life.
So says a British high court in the controversy over the Silver Ring Thing...

Lydia Playfoot, a 16-year old pupil, today lost her high court challenge over a ban preventing her from wearing a Christian "purity ring".

Her rights to education and to express her religion had not been violated, said deputy high court judge Michael Supperstone QC, who ordered her father Philip to pay £12,000 towards the school's costs.
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the judge ruled that the act of wearing a ring was not "intimately linked" to the belief in chastity before marriage. He said: "The claimant was under no obligation, by reason of her belief, to wear the ring, nor does she suggest that she was so obliged."

The judge said the school had permitted a Muslim girl to wear a headscarf where it was considered by her to be a requirement of her faith, two Sikh girls have been allowed to wear a Kara bangle on a similar basis, and a pupil was allowed to wear a headscarf as it was believed that it was required as part of her faith as a member of the Plymouth Brethren.

The Silver Ring Thing is apparently having a tough go of it in the UK where UNICEF has...

...put Britain last in a table of 21 countries for children's well-being and found that more British children had sex by the age of 15 than in any other country.