[Prime Choice]

Playing with the sex drive, the most powerful force in nature, is far more dangerous than playing with fire.

While I am certainly in favor of a bit more common sense and modesty in today's fashions, I don't buy this "dangerous" line. Like it or not, men have the conscious ability to behave in a moral or immoral manner too. To claim otherwise insinuates that we're all just mindless Bill Clinton clones just waiting to be set off by the sight of cleavage and bare midriffs.

Sure, women should hold themselves in higher regard by dressing in a manner that respects themselves...but arguing that women should dress in a certain manner so as not to arouse men's desires is going the way of the Taliban. And I'll suffer none of that horse**** here.

[goldstategop]

No one is saying women shouldn't dress as they wish. However a woman who dresses too much like a man is announcing in effect her sex drive's not that much different from a man's. And so women who are less than modest in showing off their body in public shouldn't be surprised if men treat them more like a guy than like a lady. That's what happens when feminity is dead as a force in our society.

[thoughtomator]

I think there's a middle ground somewhere. Children - children! - dress today like prostitutes did 10 years ago. I live in the middle of New York City... believe me, I've seen it all. Once you have seen it all, however, dressing up girls like whores is not attractive at all... it's repulsive, and disgusting.

I'd be happy to settle for somewhere between 1950 and 1980 as a standard to move forward with. I'm not happy with the current state of abandonment of all decency.

[weegee]

I saw an episode of Cops in New Orleans during Mardi Gras.

Public nudity is prohibited by law. The cops use discretion and tend cite the more obvious cases. They don't permit people to drop their pants. They also would stop the women who walked down the street without a shirt or bra; while it is true "what was she wearing" is not a defense against sexual assault, it still presents an open invitation when showing your primary sex traits bare in a crowd of drunken strangers.