Dress Code for Women

Order in any societies is almost impossible where certain natural forces are not kept in check. One of those forces is procreation. Human sexuality is a force so powerful that it could easily make a stable society if is enjoyed in a guided manner and could easily break the social fabric if taken lightly. The dress code requirement in Islam emanates from the fact that sex is just that, sex…the most powerful urge after hunger. Societies that have taken sex lightly have disregarded the importance of women covering their bodies. Human males are created in such a way that cues from the outside world are easily capable of aggravating the sexual urges. Among the most powerful cues is seeing certain parts of a woman's body. Breasts, buttocks or even legs are all stimulants for human male's sexual urges. When Islam requires females to cover their bodies in a certain manner, it is only done that way to prohibit the aggravation of sexual urges that could lead to illicit sex. For most people in the world, the damaging effects of premarital or extramarital sexual affairs are quite clear. However, there are societies that have reached a point where they treat the fulfillment of sexual urges as the treatment of any other needs such as hunger. They believe that fulfilling sexual needs can be through any one and that changing sexual partners is essentially the same as changing the types of meals one have. Societies that still have common sense in them, intuitively understand the destructive nature of such behaviors.

Other ills of females dressing haphazardly is the creation of male community that is brainwashed to believe that certain body types are better than others and eventually beauty becomes identified with certain body formations. The destructiveness nature of leading man to believe that beauty is defined in specified forms and shapes results in idolizing women of certain outlooks while excluding the many who do not fit those descriptions. That’s where the genius of Islam can be seen. By forcing women to cover their bodies in full you have minimized the idolization of certain body formation and have given males more freedom to have a varied subject of their desire. Despite the fact it is natural for humans (now and historically) to associate body image and beauty with self image, evidence is supportive of the fact that physical appearance is far more important in the present than ever before and has actually taken a new form. Historical master piece paints provide a concrete support for the belief that thinness was not always associated with beauty or more accurately being thin was not a condition for receiving a beauty stamp of approval. All these changes in the way man choose their female partners is largely due to over exposure.

Persuading or otherwise pressurizing people to become thinner is a direct result of more exposure of female's bodies. Uncontrolled sexual behavior is also a result of females dressing in a more exposed fashion.

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