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.