Molecules of Immodesty, by Julian Kwasniewski

I was recently biking along the Pacific in Manhattan Beach, a suburb of Los Angeles, while on a trip to play in a new baroque ensemble. Everyone already knows that California seashores aren’t going to showcase the best of humanity, let alone feminine modesty. But the thought that crystallized in my mind was not that immodesty “is a modern evil leading to the breakdown of healthy sexuality, blah, blah, blah” as so many writers have rightly—if tiringly—repeated.

Rather, the thought that congealed for me was how unfair immodesty is to both men and women. Not only is it unfair, it’s horribly unhelpful and wounding to both sexes. Here I have obvious modern immodesty in mind rather than fine distinctions between modesty and immodesty in tasteful dressing. …

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