Covering Up Women Doesn’t Make Society Holier Because Male Desire Isn’t Dependent on Women

What’s the purpose of the constant focus on Tznius for women. You actually hear less about the women’s Mitzvos that were historically emphasized than you do about Tznius these days. Tznius shiurim and tapes have taken over.
From this you might imagine that there’s some sort of epidemic of frum women walking around dressed in [...]

Was Miriam HaNeviah Tzanuah?

The Gemara in Sotah yud beit: daf alef tells us that when Miriam HaNeviah was rejuvenated she became so beautiful that men would become aroused by her and rush home to their wives for the *ahem* obvious reason.
Now was Miriam HaNeviah not Tznius? Was she responsible for bitul zerah or aroyos? Surely we can assume [...]

Male Desire and Women

This stems from the discussion on the Harry Mayles post about the Tznius Beit Din. Elliot Pasik repeated a familiar argument
The child sex abuse problem has exploded in the past few decades, coinciding with the degeneration of moral values. Prior to World War II, when morality was at a higher level, this type and [...]

The Tznius Obsession Reduces Women to their Bodies

Religious conservatives often go on about how modern society reduces women to their bodies and there’s certainly tons of sexually explicit advertising everywhere and women being treated as nothing but pieces of meat. But the frum world is better right?
Certainly girls going into their shidduch parsha aren’t set insane standards for dress sizes no normal [...]

IT’S TZNIUS MADNESS SEASON

Welcome to Israel. The bombs are falling. The rockets are falling and the Rabbis who are happy to keep this government in power have found a crucial issue to tackle– all those frum women walking around in bikinis!
Oh wait, they’re not actually walking around in bikinis. Maybe their blouses are only 3 inches longer than [...]

He’s Crazy But not an Antar

Meet UnMedicated Orthodox Jew, he’s crazy, he’s off his meds and he’s all about the molesters. He’s pretty much UOJ, Un-Orthodox Jew with better grammar and spelling and less anger management problems.