Sexy Girls

My husband and I have been going back and forth about costumes for Halloween. I told him that I think it’s ridiculous that the only costumes available for women are the tawdry ones that require you to be half naked. I guess he thinks it’s a fair representation of the holiday they are made for. In that regard, maybe he’s right. But I’ve always enjoyed dressing up for fall parties, and I refuse to look like a prostitute preparing for a shift.

What I wear with my husband and what I wear in public are two very different things. Some things should be left to the imagination. Our bodies are not for objectification. We need to respect ourselves. It is possible to look pretty and even sexy without being slutty.

Costume makers have even made “sexy” outfits for the under 13 girls. I had the misfortune of seeing some on the shelf in a costume shop over the weekend. If moms are walking out with cleavage bared and skirts that hardly pass for belts, is it any wonder our daughters want to mimic what they see us do?

As women, we should dress in ways that make it easy for us to be treated with respect. A man will not love a woman he doesn’t respect. And a woman who does not respect herself is not loving herself. I realize there is a broad range of what each of us finds “respectable”. Let’s just use caution in choosing what we wear and where we post the pics. No regrets.