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There was a time in North America when women could not reveal their ankles for fear of exciting the lurid interest of men. That time has long gone, and these days, the pendulum has swung so far in the opposite direction that many women are hard-pressed to cover even their most private bits. Feminist conservative author Wendy Shalit raised the ire of more liberal feminists a decade ago having noted this trend in her tome, A Return to Modesty. Shalit argued that many of the issues negatively affecting the modern woman "are expressions of a society which has lost its respect for female modesty."

Within some cultural and religious traditions today, women are still required to cover themselves from head to toe. Far from advocating that kind of subjugation, it might yet be time for the western woman to re-evaluate the extent to which she has freed herself. Author and feminist Naomi Wolf has argued that the over-sexualization of women in everyday life has ironically disempowered them, writing that "following (this trend) too slavishly... is neither healthy nor cool."

There is a Lack of Modesty…Everywhere

At the service counter in the bank, at MacDonald’s for a breakfast sandwich, on an overcrowded bus going to work…there is literally nowhere to escape being bombarded and overwhelmed by the sheer amount of uninhibited, barely-restrained bosoms, bouncing, quivering, straining tensely against the scant amounts of fabric attempting to hinder them.