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You don’t play competitive beach volleyball in a burqa. If some religion or nation forces their women to wear 7th century attire, let the world see the glaring contrast between a free nation, where the athletes decide what works best, and a nation/religion that does not embrace Liberty, and prefers bondage.

Here’s Why the USA Women’s Volleyball Team Refuses to Stop Wearing Bikinis
http://ijr.com/2016/08/670528-heres-why-the-usa-womens-volleyball-team-refuses-to-stop-wearing-bikinis/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=owned&utm_campaign=ods&utm_term=ijamerica&utm_content=nation

One can see women as sexual objects no matter what they wear. Lust is lust. Is the volleyball attire any more immodest than what the swimmers and gymnasts wear? Not if you haven’t crucified the flesh. How many perverts tuned in to see gymnasts in tight outfits contorting their bodies? Its NOT the attire, its the people watching with the problem.

If one is offended while looking lustfully at female athletes, it would seem some time in the Word, and on their knees might be needed. I would think preaching the Word, changing people’s hearts, might be a better use of one’s time rather than discussing proper beach attire and forcing people to change their clothes because some religious tyrant demands it.

The real problem with the notion of modesty is that its never objective. Many Christians can see scantily clad women and just appreciate beauty. On the other hand, some religious zealot may be enraged by the site of an exposed ankle. Thankfully, we have LIBERTY in Christ, and still live in a nation clinging to what little freedom remains. We can be individually led by the Spirit, who will do far more than any religion in directing Believers to walk in Love and the Wisdom of God. We don’t need a Roman version of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

The musims can wear what they want. I live in one of the main areas of the world, where beach volleyball originated and became popular.

It is a beach, and people here dress in certain styles for the beach. Muslims do different.

The last thing I need, is a Catholic padre telling us, how we need to change in the direction of muslims.

Same would apply if anybody, any religion, told us what we should be doing. Herd your own flock, but leave me and mine alone in America.

I assumed we could blame beach volleyball on the Los Angeles Olympics, but actually it was introduced at Barcelona and became a medal sport in the Atlanta Olympics.

The game is doubles volleyball.

Why the bathing suits and all the sand was necessary I'll never know.

My wife played on the world tour for a bit, and the article linked above interviewing Misty and Kerry about it has it right in my view. A bikini is for many people the most comfortable thing to wear on the beach, and that’s where they’ve been playing this sport for their entire lives.

They aren’t wearing them because they’re exhibitionists or immodest, Kerry Walsh to take a particular example with which I’m familiar, is not only the best women’s beach volleyball player of all time, but also an incredible family woman, three kids and a husband, and zero blemishes on her public record as an upstanding woman of moral character.

Freedom in the Western sense means that women can wear what they want for their own comfort and convenience without their choices being determined by the lowest impulses of men versus Islam where if a woman shows her ankles, men are assumed to not be able to prevent themselves from raping her.

In my youth I spend a great deal of time at the beach in Southern California. I thought and continue to think that the bikinis of the 1960s and early 1970s presented the female form in a very flattering way.

What I see women wearing now at the beach looks as if it were designed by men who hate women. It makes them look mentally retarded, as if they don't even know enough to cover their rear ends. As a man, it does not appeal to me the way a classy bathing suit does.

The female body is truly a work of art. Displaying it in a vulgar way debases women, as do piercings and tattoos.

There is no sense of beauty anymore, just trash.

Pity.