Now, I know what most are thinking. Is it not the fact that women run around with yoga pants and leggings the whole destroyer of the mind!? I mean, those buttoxes! Cover them up and all will be well!
The problem with this is that we view modesty and unbridled desire for human flesh as a "modern Christain issue" (direct qoute from several articles). People, the Bible is pretty old. Remember?
There were men in the Bible who struggled with bad thoughts about women and women who did not wear enough clothes (can someone say Bathsheba?).
However, modesty of women has been way overblown and it is overshadowing a sinister and destructive issue.
Do you know how many verses discuss the word modesty in regard to women only? Two.
Do you know how many specifically discuss keeping control of your thoughts? Nineteen.
That doesn't include the numerous verses about purity of the mind.
So why are we blabbering on about modesty? Because porn is not as easy to discuss.
We live in a terrarium of sin where we constantly admonish women for being the Venus fly trap but breed the men like flies in a cesspool of porn.
Now all you relieved parents out there that are thinking, "Not my child." or "Thankfully mine are too young". Not so fast. The average age a boy is exposed to porn is 11. We are not talking about magazines here. We are talking violent, hard porn. The type of porn that tells the story that women deserve and even enjoy violation. And girls are believing it because there is a growing number of females watching porn as well. In Christain circles we have tried to solve the issue of nasty thoughts by promoting modesty. Trying to rid impure thoughts by taking away anything that could lead to such thoughts is an incredibly stupid plan of attack. Unless all women are abducted and erased from memory, men are going to think bad thoughts about them. The problem is taking those thoughts captive. But the men of today are walking around with Olympian-worthy training in allowing bad thoughts. But somehow this gets pegged on women? There are women out there that do not have the conviction to be modest. We cannot expect a non-believer to follow God's rules if they don't believe in Him. But, as a Christian man, you must take captive the thoughts you will have about that mini skirt. Or, sometimes even us women with the best intentions get caught in situations where we have a wardrobe malfunction (the pocket of my jeans once caught on a doorknob and ripped half my pants off).
However, if a women does dress to attract the attention of men around her (come on ladies, you know that in-the-mirror-I-look-HOTT moment) she's not doing right either.
Each is accountable for their own sin in the end.
What is my point?
The issue of not respecting each other's bodies and minds is an issue for all of us.
Stop talking about our society's disrespect like it is only an issue of wearing more clothes.
Stop being nieve about what your child is seeing on the internet.
Stop unequally placing the burden of keeping men's minds pure on the women in your life.
Stop avoiding the topic of porn.
And for the love of everything reasonable:
Stop pretending that a yoga-pant-burning party will solve everything.
Do carefully read this verse:
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ..."
-Lindsay
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/119/2/247.full.pdf
