THE other day I saw an interesting and bizarre outfit. A girl who was about 19 was wearing her short winter jacket so that it fell dramatically off one shoulder. It was similar to this except the jacket was a little higher on the arm and she was wearing hardly anything underneath so that her entire shoulder, down to the elbow and including the upper chest and back, was bare. And it was cold outside.

This look is a fashion, but it was the first time I had ever seen it. The girl was with her parents, who apparently were totally indifferent to the sin of immodesty and how it would affect their daughter. In that, they were no different from most American parents.

Clothes are a curtain. They protect privacy. At their best (when they truly cover), they elevate personality by distracting from the body. This girl might have many good things in life but there is one thing I believe she will find hard to get. And that is, intimacy. Nakedness empties people. Intimacy is the sharing of depths. Animals are naked and they mate without intimacy. They have nothing to share, nothing hidden.

Many men are not attracted to the immodest clothes women wear today. They make women less mysterious, less intriguing, less beautiful, less of a treasure to seek, less of a prize. But men will never say so.

When women bare their bodies in public, they empty their souls. The more immodest women are, the more impersonal society is and the more people are creatures of the herd. In the servile society, people are unfree in many ways, but they are free to be nude because the animalized human being is easier to control. The inside is empty. And the inner life is the greatest of threats to tyranny.

That said, the potential consequences of immodesty for women in the next life are far more grave than these negative effects in this life.

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