Laura Robinson, “Women Are Never Going to Cover Themselves Enough to Get Men to Shut Up About Us,” laurarbnsn.substack.com.
So I think it’s only fair to warn you guys if your church wants to be really counterculture and expand purity restrictions to be even stricter and even broader – ie, women should not be seen in workout clothes, swimsuits, hospital gowns, while nursing babies, etc – you are absolutely driving the bus the wrong way. As The Rules become longer and more consuming, being on the wrong side of them becomes more and more eroticized. Today it’s nursing moms, but tomorrow it’ll be women holding babies, because babies make men think about nursing and nursing makes them think about breasts (if you think I’m exaggerating, remind me to tell you the story of the time I was reprimanded for hanging a swimsuit to dry where boys could see it at church camp). The rules create the fetish, not the other way around.
The Amateur Exegete 