God created the female body to illicit a response in men that would lead to fruitfulness.  Apparently it’s the most fun activity in the world often turning into worship or addiction, yet God had to command his people to be fruitful.  No doubt because our tendency is to want all the enjoyable aspects without the responsibility.  And so the morning after or however many mornings after we murder the fruit before the harvest in various ways.  And this has been the norm throughout human history.

Today our culture seems to think that eliciting that response anywhere on the street is no big deal, as long as you are ‘comfortable’ in your attire.  In addition we take the most ideal female bodies, those most likely to illicit the response to which we all owe our existence, and plaster them everywhere.  We take the fruit and the mechanism for granted, as if it is only about our choice and our will.  Not even considering the child, much less the transcendent God and his rules of created order.

Pilgrims Going to Church. George Henry Boughton. c. 1867

And then when we do finally chose to have that one designer child, as an accessory to improve our FB posts.  We seem to have a lot of trouble doing so.  And so there is a huge industry of medication to illicit the response in the male that used to be the role of the female.  We are desensitized to what the average wife has to offer.  I once heard a pastor ask “Which culture is more sensual the one where husbands get aroused by their wife’s calf or the one which requires silicone enhanced actors and medication to become aroused?

Our culture now embraces the notion that speech is violence because it causes stress in people who are not equipped to hear dissenting opinions.  Which is really nonsense.  But we care nothing for willy nilly actually, casually causing arousal in men, in any and all contexts.  And any results from this are of course more blamed on males as a repressive group.  God made the world in a certain way despite our choice.  We can’t choose our own sex but we can choose what we do with it, and we will be held to account.  We can’t pretend that modesty is not an issue, but we can choose to dress in a way that encourages all of the good things in the world, such as strong marriages, and a full quiver of children that result.  As in all things do you dress for yourself, or do you lay down your preferences, your life for the good of others?  Laying down your life is the Gospel.