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For the Strength of Youth (1966)

This past weekend I spent some time with my Wife’s Grandfather and he offered me the opportunity to rummage through his old books and take anything I am interested in. I don’t pass up such...

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Mormon Young Women, Modesty, and the Porn-Addled Youth of Today

My oldest daughter Samantha just finished 8th grade and is preparing to enter high school in the fall. She is brilliant and gorgeous. She is also sharp tongued and salty. The boys she has been going to...

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Please Keep Telling the YW to Be Modest for the YM

The title of this post is a play on Julie’s recent post over at T&S. I have been stirring up trouble over there so I figured I’d use this unusual lapse in my blogging apathy to continue over here....

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Pitching Modesty

Has anyone seen this video before? It is a young entrepreneur pitching her line of modest women’s swimwear. She obviously has a financial incentive here but her arguments are provocative and sound...

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A New Approach to Modesty 1/7: The Generation of Modesty Rhetoric

Why are so many bloggers talking about modesty recently?  Prepare to know. As a young man writing about human nature David Hume analyzed several common virtues.  When he got to modesty and chastity he...

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Uncovering Feminine Modesty – New Approach to Modesty Series

This is the second post in the New Approach to Modesty series.  For post one click here. Getting ready for a Mutual activity, Chelsea Anderson casually put on a pair of short shorts. “It never occurred...

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Revealing Themes in Feminine Modesty – A New Approach to Modesty Series

This is the third post in the Modesty and Chastity Series.  Follow these links to post one and two. Speaking at a Women’s Conference event, Sister Claudia J. Dansie said: Part of our responsibility as...

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An Unveiled History of Modesty in the West – New Approach to Modesty Series

This is the fourth post in the New Approach to Modesty series.  Click for post one, post two, and post three. Barnabe Rich was a pioneer moralist.  In 1613 he wrote a book explaining the roles that men...

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Recovering Modesty, Old Wisdom for a New Era – New Approach to Modesty Series

This is the fifth post in the New Approach to Modesty series.  Click for post one, post two, post three, and post four. I’ve noted before that LDS speakers and writers occasionally point out that...

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Repression, Confession and Human Sexuality

The deep disagreements between the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School and Foucault can be summarized in the question: Freud or Nietzsche? The German Critical Theorists thought that the scientific...

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