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Mini Skirt Gets Attention the World Over
Vol. 12, No. 6 — Jun 2010
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In 2005, the Century Amusement Park in China offered half price admission to any woman over the age of 18 who would come to the park wearing a skirt shorter than 14.8 inches (The Epoch Times, July 7, 2005). Obviously, the purpose was to entice more men to come to the park and pay full admission price in order to enjoy the “scenery.” In 2000, the Director of Education in Swaziland, Africa banned miniskirts in school there in order to reduce fornication, and stated “If you are exposing your thighs some people may get attracted to that and make advances” (BBC News, July 19, 2000). In 2005, the vice chancellor of Bombay University in India banned women students from wearing miniskirts, shorts and tight tops in order to reduce rape. He made this statement to reporters, “An attire should be such that it should not be offensive or cause distraction to fellow students and lecturers” (Press Trust of India, June 23, 2005). Authorities in Malaysia’s conservative Terengganu have planned to ban non-Muslim women from wearing miniskirts or figure-hugging dresses to work as part of a drive against indecency. (CNN.com “Malaysia plans mini-skirt ban” story). Immodesty Acceptable in U.S. In the U.S., however, our culture conditions us from a very young age to accept sexually provocative clothing as being normal and even respectable. The heroines of numerous Disney cartoon movies wear clothing that does not meet God’s standard of modesty, but because Aerial, Belle, Pocahontas and Jasmine are so positive in