Discussion on Bikinis and Modesty

Should Christian women wear bikinis?

The guy who invented the bikini, uh, in

1946 was a guy named Louis Réard. He was

an automotive engineer who worked for, get this, his mom's

lingerie business. And he worked all day around women,

you know, lingerie

outfits and all that, and thought, "How can we get women to wear these things

in

public?" And he came up with an idea, "Well, how about, uh, we make it just

basically waterproof, and then just tell them, like,

it's a bathing suit?" And so

it's basically waterproof underwear created by a guy

who worked for his lingerie business.

So he wanted models to debut his outfit that he had

created there in Paris, France. Approached all these runway models,

and they

thought he was out of his mind. They would not put on underwear in

public just because they could possibly swim in it now. Like, you're a perv.

Like, d- no, no, no, no, no. He had to go to a casino in Paris to a

stripper because she was the only one willing to debut the

first

bikini, bikini. Her name was Michelle Bernadini,

was the woman's name.

Only a stripper would wear this 80 years ago.

This year is when this thing was invented.

And now we've come to the point like, "No, this is my Christian right to put on

waterproof underwear." And what was interesting is Princeton did some

studies

where they would hook up men's brains, these monitors, and show them different

images, just real quick images of all kinds of

different stuff, of inanimate

objects, of women dressed in business attire,

women in bikinis, women in bikinis

with their heads cropped off the photo.

And what they found is that when men saw these images of women in

bikinis, and even particularly women where their

head wasn't even exposed in the

image, what they found is it, it lit up a part of the man's brain

associated with tool use, like a screwdriver or a table

saw. They also found the part of the brain

associated with

third-person verbs versus first-person verbs.

When the woman was wearing something immodest, part of the brain

associated with first-person verbs is going like, "I touch, I

handle, I grab," if it's immodest.

Whereas if the woman was dressed modestly, uh, he was more associating her with

third-person verbs. She walks, she does, she, she kind of has her

own free agency. But they said that perhaps the most troubling

thing is that it deactivated a part of the brain called the, uh,

m- medial prefrontal cortex that's associated

with

intuiting a person's thoughts and feelings and beliefs.

That part of the brain was literally turned off,

and they said it's really

worrisome because the only other time we've seen that, and it's very rare,

is when

we show people images of, like, drug addicts or homeless people, where

they're... people kind of don't want to associate

them with their own humanity.

They, in a sense, dehumanize these people.

And so they found that part of the brain

was literally turned off when guys were

seeing these images of women in bikinis.

And so the question is, woman has sexual value.

There's a true and good value to that.

She also has a value as a human being.

These two values would need to be put in a particular order.

Modesty orders them rightly, the value of me as a person above my

sexual value. Without saying a word, the values are in place.

Immodesty has the opposite effect.