[Dead Corpse]

Bravo Sierra. Modest? Is that why the Sports Illustrated Swim Suit edition sells so poorly?

[goldstategop]

SI is fantasy. In real life, no man wants his girlfriend or wife to dress like a slut in public. If a woman wants to show lots of skin or more than a hint of cleavage, the appropriate place to do it is behind closed doors.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I work in a Grocery Store and the women's rags at the checkout counter tell you all you need to know about women just by looking at the covers.

They all have to do with sex. And they say men are consumed by sex.

[Capriole]

He means of course that men are sexually attracted to women who expose their bodies--otherwise, the whole dispute about the tee-shirt wouldn't have arisen--but when it comes to choosing someone to love and cherish forever, men are drawn to a woman who is, as the old saying has it, "a lady in the living room and a whore in the bedroom."

I can testify to this. I am a pretty blonde lady. If I go out with a new friend dressed in a provocative way I will get a heavy pass. But if I go out dressed in my Killer Dress, the effects are devastating. The Killer Dress has short sleeves, a relatively high neckline, and a hem that goes down to about four inches above my ankles. It fits my upper body closely enough to show that I have a slender waist and that I am very fit but not stacked. It is white cotton. When I wear this dress out on a date I get roses and poetic love letters. Men open the car door for me, pay for my dinner, confide their dreams, and ask me what color we should paint the shutters on the house we'll buy after we get married.

We do, after all, judge each other by externals, and if a woman wears a shirt that says, "I'm a slut and I go down easily," no man will think she is rare, precious, and cherish-able. He may want to sleep with her but he won't want to fall into adoring love and spend the rest of his life with her. If she dresses like a lady he has to conclude she probably is a lady and thus is at least potentially the sort of woman he would like to fall in love with and marry.

Women are stupid. We say men are stupid, but we are stupider.

[r9etb]

Bravo Sierra. Modest? Is that why the Sports Illustrated Swim Suit edition sells so poorly?

Well, I guess that comment proves that you didn't understand the article the first time. Perhaps you can go back and read it again....?