Editing Purity test (section)

==Description==

Most purity tests have possible scores anywhere from 0% to 100%. Purity tests ask numerous personal questions of their users, most commonly about the use of alcohol and [[Illegal drug trade|illicit substances]]; [[Human sexual behavior|sexual acts]] with members of the opposite or same-sex; other illicit or illegal activities, and the above actions in an odd or "kinky" context.  These tests typically have anywhere from 50 to 2000 questions.

Many popular purity tests encourage participation in a social situation (one person reading a purity test aloud while others mark down their "yeses" for later [[wiktionary: tabulate|tabulation]]). The tests often acknowledge that some may use them as a [[checklist]] for things to do, try, or accomplish.

One test is The Unisex Purity Test (or, simply, the Purity Test). First written before 1980 in the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] [[List of MIT undergraduate dormitories|Baker House]], the first incarnation had two [[Parallelism (grammar)|parallel]] versions, 100 questions each; one for male, and one for female. The next iteration (247 questions, written at [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in 1983) heralded the merging of the gendered versions, making it [[unisex]]. Over the next [[decade]] or so, many re-writes and expansions commenced, a 2000-question version being written in 1995.