“Abstinence Eve is a product of the first collaboration between the Casilio sisters and Cary Wolinsky. It was originally conceived by the Casilios as a guerrilla street performance in which they would dress as nuns and attempt to sell their hand-made, bedazzled and flag bearing chastity belts to passers-by. The scene evolved rapidly before the camera when TRIIIBE took these religious hijinks from the streets to the studio. Despite the ridiculousness of their premise—inviting strangers to literally “buy in” to abstinence by publicly purchasing a flimsy homemade medieval device, entirely futile for its intended purpose—TRIIIBE makes a point worth taking seriously. In our contemporary moment when pop stars flaunt chastity rings for PR, professional athletes are more famous for what they do or don’t do in their bedrooms then what they accomplish on the field, and reality stars build empires from their home videos, hasn’t the public exposure of private life reached a new point of absurdity? Within this swath of mixed-messages regarding female sexuality, TRIIIBE provokes us to consider Eve’s determination to be abstinent. Is her choice one of free will, religious indoctrination, or social and cultural pressure? And is there really a difference?”