“It’s impossible for women to dress in a way that won’t ignite the carnal desires of at least one of their fellow citizens. This issue was in the news again recently when a radical Islamic sheik told a Sydney public meeting that women who were raped had only themselves to blame. ‘Strapless, backless, sleeveless, nothing but satanic skirts, slit skirts, translucent blouses, miniskirts, tight jeans: all this to tease man and appeal to his carnal nature,’ railed 34-year-old Sheik Faiz Mohammed. ‘Would you put [a] sheep that you adore in the middle of hungry wolves? No… it would be devoured. It’s the same situation here. You’re putting this precious girl in front of lustful, satanic eyes of hungry wolves. What is the consequence? Catastrophic devastation, sexual harassment, perversion, promiscuity…’ It is, of course, an almighty cop-out to suggest that chaps are hungry wolves unable to control their demonic desires around scantily clad sheep. It’s also ridiculous to think there’s such a thing as lust-repellent clothing in the first place. Cruise through internet fetish sites and you’ll see women are drooled over even when wearing conventionally drab attire. At the Blouse Sexy site, the pin-up chicks are fully dressed women in conservative, button-up office shirts. There are also XXX sites devoted to women in boiler suits, women wearing supermarket-issue washing up gloves and women in surgical neck braces. Burqa sex sites are also becoming more common. These include glowing odes to wet burqa competitions and fashion tips for burqa-wearing Western cross-dressers. While Faiz Mohammed may see this as further proof that Western culture does indeed wear a set of red plastic devil horns, it’s also a wonderful reminder that sexuality does not come in a single, one-size-fits-all model. Some of us respond to the stereotypical ’sexy look’ prescribed by the mainstream media, while others are aroused by more off-beat ensembles.” —The Australian (Australia)

This editorial, written by Ms. Emma Tom, hits the nail directly on the head. There is a fetish for everything. If radical Islamic sheiks required their female followers to wear burlap bags, no doubt they would be playing right into the hands of some obscure audience of guys who fetishize chicks in burlap bags. It’s a great big beautiful world out there and, as an old jazz standard put it, everyone has sex appeal for someone. You can’t make a beautiful woman ugly — and you certainly can’t dampen a man’s lust — just by putting a different set of rags on her shoulders.

In fact, sometimes you have to wonder if the exact opposite strategy might not be the more effective one. What if you got rid of everybody’s clothes? What if you had to walk around all day looking at human bodies for what they really are? Granted, there are hot chicks and studly guys, but the bulk of human bodies are, uh, somewhat less than ideal. What’s more, even the allure of the hot chicks and studly guys pales when you see them naked all the time. It’s the familiarity breeds contempt principle. Could anything be less sexy than those cultures where the normal outfit is a thong? It makes you long for a tight pink sweater to cover up those sunburned mammaries.

Clothes make the man, the saying goes, and sometimes you have to wonder how much clothes make up sex appeal as such. What’s more exciting — to have something thrown in your lap? Or to have it hide from you, tease you, entice you, make you work? Probably the latter — but then it would be unrealistic to expect any hardline sheik to understand such a matter. Their understanding of desire probably leaves off where their devotion to Allah begins.

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