This is Stan to Reasons, hashtag STR-Ask podcast. Welcome to you. And Greg, we have some more practical type questions today. And the first one comes from

Lori. My nine-year-old daughter has questions about modesty, specifically where God says that certain

areas of the body should not be shown. She clearly wants to know why we discourage her from showing her

midriff, et cetera. How to address without causing shame around our bodies since we were naked before the fall?

Well, I have two daughters, and so I have to address this.

And sometimes I get resistance because I don't think my daughters have a realistic grasp about how men think and respond sexually.

And I'm not here necessarily speaking about fallen human beings.

This is a characteristic of fallenness.

I'm just saying this is the way men are.

And for good or for ill, and certainly it is affected by the fall.

Okay.

But one simple thing for young people, especially women, to understand is that men are alerted to sexual things visually.

They respond visually.

And I'm trying to think of the best way to kind of characterize this without sounding

gauche or something. When a woman's body is presented to him in an attractive way, especially

where flesh is exposed, it naturally stimulates a sexual response in him of some sort, some people more than others.

And this is why a young lady wants to be careful about how much of her body she exposes,

because by exposing more of her body, it draws a young man's eyes to her and invites him, even though she's not extending

an invitation, the circumstance invites the man to begin thinking about the young lady in a sexual

way.

It may not be like he's imagining sexual behaviors with her.

He's just beginning to look on her as sexually appealing. Where it goes from there is part of his

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