Indecent exposure is fast becoming an important health-related issue in our society (Nigeria please!). How?! Do the words HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, rape, pregnancy, come to mind? Well these 'consequences' are strongly associated to scanty dressing.
Now who takes the blame for this then?...is it me or you, or the so-called modern-day parents, or the government, or even the churches? Well a lot of school of thoughts put the blame on parents and their mode of parenting. For instance, Mama go wear her 4yr old bum shorts and that same child go still continue to wear that same bum shorts till she reach 15yrs!...after dem go complain say person sexually harass am! (i can't shout abeg!)
For your information, a recent study on 283 adolescents in age group 10-19yrs, was carried out in Metropolitan Lagos which showed that there was a strong association between dressing habit and sexual comportment. It also showed that those that were scantily dressed were vulnerable to sexual acts and are likely to be more exposed to HIV/AIDS and all. The study showed that most of these adolescents wore certain clothes for various reasons and in their own words, "I want to be noticed by boys especially big boys", "I want to dress to thrill", and "Sex for cash"!
To cut matter short...what can we do to curb indecent exposure from scanty dressing? Or make we siddon look?! Because you know now...i can't shout!
Doc, nice write up... let me be the first to comment on this post. I know a similar write up promoting indecent dressing would have attracted a lot more comments, and earlier too.
ReplyDeleteWe cannot rule out the fact that the current mode of dressing is a clear reflection of the times we live in..... different dressing patterns have come and gone from the 50s, 60s up to the 90s.I sometimes feel sorry for fashion designers who have at this time run out of new styles to trun out, and left to recycle old fads as far back as the 60s... we even call them "Old School", some of them equally as vulgar as what we refer to as indecent today.
All I am saying is that "This too shall pass"
I struggle to see the connection between dressing and sexual habits..... I'd rather connect the sexual habits to the mode of dressing. (not all indecently dressed girls are sexually immoral, however you can argue that all sexually immoral adolescents will dress indecently).
That study in Lagos must have a lot of bias and loads of assumptions.
I do not promote indecent or decent dressing, neither do I advocate for immoral sexual acts in adolescents, I only struggle to see the link between both.
and trust me, this too shall pass!!!