Wednesday, May 31, 2006

men: are you comfortable with your current level of modesty?


you ask, ("As a man, I would like to increase my modesty but don't know how to do it. Can you advise me?") I answer.
here are some guidelines from the internet for increasing your modesty if you're a guy. oh, and morals play a role in today's dino comic at www.qwantz.com

Young men should maintain modesty in their dress. All should avoid tight fitting or revealing clothes and extremes in clothing and appearance.

The dress and grooming of both men should always be modest, neat, and clean

Men :
A clean and well-cared-for appearance should be maintained. Clothing is inappropriate when it is sleeveless, revealing, or form fitting. Shorts must be knee length or longer. Hairstyles should be clean and neat, avoiding extreme styles or colors, and trimmed above the collar leaving the ear uncovered. Sideburns should not extend below the earlobe or onto the cheek. If worn, moustaches should be neatly trimmed and may not extend beyond or below the corners of the mouth. Men are expected to be clean shaven; beards are not acceptable. Earrings and other body piercing are not acceptable. Shoes should be worn in all public campus areas.

Men should groom their hair relatively short. And although hair styles may reasonably vary from one culture ( note: "culture" here is defined as devout roman catholic) to another, men should not have long hair. Also, the trend in modern culture, whereby a man removes most of his body hair (such as on the arms, chest, legs), is offensive to God. Men should not remove this hair to conform to culture, nor to show off their muscles. A man may maintain a beard or moustache or other facial hair; a man may also shave his facial hair.

men should not seek excessive muscular size, nor an excessively muscular appearance. Fitness is one thing, and vanity is another. Men should not have excessive body fat

Men should not overly adore themselves with gold or jewelry. Men should not wear any earrings. Men should not wear excessive jewelry, such as gold chains or other jewelry. A man should wear a wedding ring, if he is married. A man may wear a watch or other functional jewelry.

Men must be modest in behavior. Men should not tell sexual jokes, or make sexual comments, or engange in sexually-explicit conversations, or speak and act in a way that is contrary to modesty and righteousness. Modesty applies to behavior, even more than it applies to clothing. Men should not watch pornography or treat pornography as if it were anything other than immoral and offensive.

so inconclusion, throw out your formfitting wardrobe and get a haircut, hippy!
(...and get a real job, clean your act up and don't be a slob...)

and ladies remember:
From what we have found in Scripture, long dresses, long skirts, long robes, long and loose culottes or even pants [IMHO - I have to totally disagree here about the pants ;-)]if they can be described as long, loose and flowing (and not sheer) would be modest and feminine. Can short or tight skirts be described as long and flowing? Can shorts be described as long and flowing? What about blue jeans? You might be able to describe them as loose but are you convinced (!) they are long and flowing?

ARE THEY??

2 Comments:

At 10:32 PM, Blogger Tim said...

I am reticent to comment here as my opinion may compromise my male modesty. Thank you for this. The world thanks you

 
At 11:18 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

OH MY GOD! you know, if people didn't know you, they'd probably think you were some bible thumping, braid wearing DIPPER!! lol!

 

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