The following was posted on Allie Beth Stuckey’s Facebook page, 1/13/26. She was showing a video of a woman named Rosaria (I never found the last name). This was the talk on the video:
Immodesty is a sin. It’s the kind of sin that destroys the peace and purity of the Church. It’s the kind of sin that brings dishonor to the name of Christ. The Puritans, who were very colorful with their metaphors, said this: “A beautiful but immodest woman entering a room of men is a lit candle in a world full of gunpowder.”
There were several comments about how the men should control their lusts, as if that absolves the woman’s immodesty. Women know they will attract the looks of men with immodest dress and that is why they dress immodestly—for the attention it gets.
Women, including young women in your teens, dress appropriately in public. Your bodies should not be displayed to anyone but the man you marry.
2 comments:
It's astounding to me that anyone would have an issue with this incredibly wise position. As you say, and I've said before myself on more than one occasion, it's not that men should control themselves...though they must and always ought...or that anyone is trying to "force" women to do as they're told as if men are desperate to recreate a patriarchy. To arouse the prurient interest...usually on purpose...is to lead or invite others to misbehave or as a means of exerting female control (a matriarchy, if you will) on men.
In some cases, women will dress provocatively to flaunt themselves in front of other women not blessed with their level of attractiveness so as to demean and disparage those upon whom they look down their powdered noses.
I'm especially amused by those who dress provocatively, exposing much cleavage or thigh, and then scold men who look at those exposed body parts. They dress to attract attention without the means of selecting who can be attracted without accusing those whose attraction they weren't after of being perverse and depraved. "I only want THAT man to leer at and be drawn to me. All the rest of you guys must avert your gaze!"
Other than my enjoyment at the sight of a hot babe all dolled up lookin' good, there's really no value in her being dressed provocatively.
And finally, it is a fact that this is a dangerous world with evil all over it. To pretend that among those these women didn't wish to attract are the most vile of predators. Folks can whine all they want that a woman shouldn't be denied dressing as she pleases and going anywhere she pleases at any time she pleases to do so. The predators totally agree with that
Marshall Art, I was following your thoughts, in general agreement, until I reached this rather incongruent statement of yours: “Other than my enjoyment at the sight of a hot babe all dolled up lookin' good, there's really no value in her being dressed provocatively.” Perhaps many women consider that the “value” would indeed be “[your] enjoyment” (men in general, not necessarily you specifically). As I see it, that sentence revealed your true feelings towards women in general and those “dressed provocatively” in particular.
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