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Ran across this just now. I find it rather humourous. http://www.the-exponent.com/the-modesty-song/http://www.the-exponent.com/the-modesty-song/” class=”bbcode_url”> Similar post over at Feminist Mormon Housewives that his the same themes: http://www.feministmormonhousewives.org/2012/09/mormon-modesty-we-have-to-do-better/ As one commenter said, “Nothing in my life made me feel more like a sex object than being told that if I was not covered from x(shoulders) to y(knees) I would be sending inappropriate messages to boys. And no, being told my body is a *sacred* sex object did not make it any better.”
This song was sung in my home and stake for several weeks. It’s meant to be lighthearted and silly. They keynote phrase is “I’m saving my armpits for my wife.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVKsd2PIBH0 I get that the phrase “modest is hot” is self-contradictory and not helpful, but the song is kind of funny.
As long as modesty continues to be defined by dress, stop and consider which arouses more unholy and impure thoughts, total nudity at a nude beach or nudist resort or a woman or man in a thong bikini/swimsuit. Roadrunner wrote:
This song was sung in my home and stake for several weeks. It’s meant to be lighthearted and silly. They keynote phrase is “I’m saving my armpits for my wife.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVKsd2PIBH0 I get that the phrase “modest is hot” is self-contradictory and not helpful, but the song is kind of funny.
This is what I thought the OP was about. It is a running joke in our house.
Saving my armpits for my wife seems to be a tongue in cheek slam on the concept. I also sense self-contradiction.
I am trying to get my wife to not use the word “modest” in our home. I hope that we can explain our wardrobe preferences using different words than “that is not modest”. If we cannot, then I believe that says much about us.
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