Posted on 05/12/2011 7:56:10 PM PDT by Salvation
I think it will.
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Please,God, let modesty return.
Among normal human populations, the rapist will pick a target ahead of time or take an opportunistic chance. The primary calculation is the risk of being caught. Criminals have bad judgment and bad character but they are not stupid and impulse ridden, for the most part.
That having been said, modesty has historically been considered a virtue for good reason, and is its own reward.
Seems fairly obvious to me...
Thank God I don't have to give a rat's rear end about political correctness.
I am all for modesty but I don’t think statistics bear out the notion that the less modestly dressed get raped more often.
It probably has more to do with how much alcohol the woman has consumed (or various other mind altering substances)
And
Whether or not she is with someone.
A drunk lady w/ no one to protect her - it won’t matter what she’s wearing.
I’m not aware of any stats on dress and attractiveness, but 80% of raped females are under age 30, and age 12 to 34 are supposed to be the risk years, which seems to indicate a selection based on sexual desirability.
If you dress like bait, expect to be tackled.
This is the beginning of shrouding
American women for the sake of Islam.
Feh, anybody who thinks young women dress immodestly hasn’t been on a college campus lately.
So anything traditionally American, or Christian, or not post 60s liberal, is now Islamic in your eyes?
They all emulate hookers it seems. Its stomach turning
**I quite frankly doubt that dress has much to do with being rap**
Then why do hookers dress a certain way?
My question exactly. Quite an extreme.
Oops.
**I quite frankly doubt that dress has much to do with being raped**
Something I’ve never heard explained is how male gynecologists and physicians are able to view nude women without getting a sexual reaction. I would guess they are desensitized, but does that carry over in the way they look at women in normal life?
Agreed. Rape generally has more to do with power over and degrading the victim. "She was asking for it because...." has been the rapist's go-to excuse.
I agree with the article. And let me tell you, it is not easy teaching this to teenage girls with all the outside influences touting the opposite view.
A return to Christian modesty is just a return to Christian modesty. It has nothing to do with Islam.
I don't know what that has to do with rape, but: gynecologists see the least attractive and least sexy aspect of women. Ninety-nine percent of the women they see are NOT NOT NOT in the least bit attractive. Believe me, looking at the underside of an overweight middle-aged woman, or a pregnant lady, or a grandma, with a bright light shining on everything, sampling the various excretions and diseases there, is absolutely not sexually exciting. So don't worry, the OB/GYN is not dying of desire while he's sticking a speculum up your wife and withdrawing a smear to examine for cervical cancer.
But when they get out on the street or in a normal sexual situation, they still find women attractive again and respond in normal ways.
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