How Modesty Helps You

The majority of reasons to practice modesty deal with the future and the past: your future marriage, your future husband, what the Bible says, what society has instituted in the past, etc. And while any one of these is a convincing reason to practice modest dress, I know it can leave you wondering “does it do me any good right now?” The answer is a definite yes.

Gaining Respect vs. Giving Satisfaction
The moral decay of the American clothing industry stems purely from the fact that men are attracted to scantily clad women. I've seen this often at high school gatherings. The girls who reveal the most, get the most attention. While this can seem like a good trade-off, let me talk to you about it from the men's perspective.

The conflict of choosing modesty versus immodesty is a conflict of choosing to gain men’s respect versus giving men satisfaction. When you choose to be immodest, you sacrifice the respect of men in order to receive their attention. But the woman who exudes modesty in her life has an amazing way of commanding respect. Women show more value when they hold their bodies as sacred. Men can not help but be awed by a respectfully dressed woman.

Here's an example. Leonardo Da Vinci's painting, The Mona Lisa, is one of the most famous and expensive pieces of art in the world. But its value is preserved by the security that is used to keep it safe. If its owner didn't heavily guard it, he wouldn't have it for very long. So the most modern, high tech security system is used so that no one can steal it. Of course, there are plenty of thieves in the world who despise this security system. If it weren't for the security, they could take it for themselves. So even though thieves hate the fact that Mona Lisa is safe from their prying hands, the world holds the painting in high esteem because of it.

With this in mind, let’s take a look at modesty. As a woman, you clearly have something that is very valuable. However, you can easily dress in a provocative way that is pleasing to men and lose your value. You are no longer carefully guarded like the Mona Lisa. Instead, you are more like a poster that anyone can get a hold of. A poster isn't valuable because it's readily available. Immodesty shifts the value of your body from something of worth to something common. By dressing modestly, you are valuable because you hold one of the greatest powers of the world in your hands yet you choose not to use it. No man can help but be intrigued by that.

Here is the blunt truth of the matter. There is nothing unique about immodesty. Anybody can be immodest. You must decide what you want to be valued for. From a man's point of view, the modest girl is the girl who has the most innate value, because she's the one whose body is secured. Just like protecting the Mona Lisa, men respect the woman who protects her body. She's the one we can't visually have!