We've all been to those restaurants or pubs where the waitresses are wearing short skirts, low cut tops and flirt their way into the wallets of their customers. In the past, it was generally assumed that it was up to the individual waiters/waitresses how they dressed as long as it complied with their color policies. Today, in some places, those policies include a minimum height at which the skirt needs to be above the knees and how high your heels need to be on your shoes. These restaurants also happen to be among the favorites of the teens and young adults today.
Sex has sold everything for some time now. You can't watch a TV show or even go to a grocery store without it being right there in your face. Modelling has never been as prevalent as it is today and being able to show sensuality is key to being successful.
The argument goes that those that have it, should flaunt it. If someone was really friendly, shouldn't they use that to chat people up to get a better job or bigger tips? Then why shouldn't someone (guy or girl) that is attractive and has an attractive figure use that as well? They are catering to their strengths. Who doesn't like to be waited on by an attractive man or woman?
The TC article has a strong bias to its reporting. As does all of us that are reading this blog too I'm sure. So I'm going to leave it at this. What's wrong with it? Does the onus lie with us not to look lustfully at a man/woman? Or do we need to do more as a society/culture?
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I think, for this topic, we should look at Song of Solomon. The king saw something beautiful in this woman, despite her dark complexion- her own self awarness and insecurities. (back then it was better for a woman to be plump and pale- which is the exact opposite of today I might add). He saw a servant heart within her, not just a lowly servant made to work by her own family in the dirt of the vineyard.
It's not all about apperance- and solomon had that. It IS our onus to not look lustfully at a man/woman. We need to appreciate
peoples beauty- which does come outwardly in the skin, but also penetrates the very soul of a person. Inner-beauty.
The best place to look in this subject would be in Romans 12. and that's my .02 cents.
Yes sex does sell, otherwise it wouldn’t be so prevalent in society. But that doesn’t make it right or good. The bible makes it clear that if I even think it, I have stumbled and sinned. But it also goes against the other party also. Either way we are both going down. To me Jesus was a black and white guy and he expects us to live black and white lives, pick to be either hot or cold.
Matthew 5
27 You have heard that it was said, “DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.” 28 But I am indeed saying to you that every one who looks at a woman to want her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 Now if your right eye causes you to stumble into sin, pluck it out and throw it away from you; for it is better for you that one of your members should perish than your whole body should be cast into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to stumble into sin, cut it off and throw it away from you; for it is better for that one of your members should perish than your whole body should go into hell.
Matthew 18:6
But whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and `that' he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.
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