Thomism and taboo. The Interrelations of Modesty, Compassion and Metaphysics
Thomism and taboo. The Interrelations of Modesty, Compassion and Metaphysics

Summary/Abstract: The author points at two things occurred with the clothing. First, visually, males simply “seemed” to girls and women as gourmet chocolate and porterhouse steak. Second, beginning around age 13, girls’ biochemical physiology, due to heightened estrogen and progesterone production, began actually craving the chocolate and steak they believed they were “experiencing” in confrontation with male clothing – and felt frustrated by this fact in day-to-day life. After all one could not always satisfy such a craving for expensive steak and chocolate. Plus, many young women could afford neither. And in either case, it was usually a tease anyway as neither chocolate or steak were really on offer; just the anticipation of the same. Author also analyzes the following aspects of this topic: fashion as communication; modesty as compassion: empathy vis-à-vis the young male experience; time and taboo: a brief history of veiling and social status; tradition, revolution, and dress; some feminist reactions.

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