Karen,
As a representative of the heterosexual male community I found the last paragraph in your comment quite amusing, simply becuase of its relevance. In short, the answer is ‘yes!’ Even ‘Hell, yea!’. Even so, this is peanuts. From a man’s point of view, every waking hour is spent on the recieving end of a constant bombardment of advertising, most of which try to appeal to the sex drive. There is so much of it that a mere cameltoe garment means almost nothing, it drowns in the maelstrom of other visual stimuli. The only major advantage I can think of right now, would probably be the signal effect (that is if one assumes the wearer of such garments enjoy being checked out in the nether regions by total stranger). No surprise here, sex sells clothes.. duh?

Thanks.

Pakistani women wear loose pants because they find skirts immodest.

You can wear whatever pants you want – they don’t have to be tight low-rise jeans and display a thong. They can be palazzo pants worn with a loose tunic. And you can wear whatever you want for religious reasons, the way Catholic nuns wear a habit and Buddhist monks wear saffron. But to say that any woman who wears pants is immodest is overgeneralising. Kind of like someone saying any woman who exposes her hair or ears is immodest just because she doesn’t personally expose her hair or ears.

Of course, lots of us pants-wearing, hair-and-ear exposing women *are* totally immodest and like it that way. But not all of us.

I know someone was offended by the term “sheep”, but it seems to me that people will buy anything and wear anything. (case in point, cropped pants–they don’t flatter any body at all, fat, thin, tall or short)

I don’t wear pants for religious reasons, they just are not modest (these days anyway) and it does seem worse now than in the past. I wonder how men deal with the constant visual stimuli of the “camel toe” problem, isn’t it distracting?

The thing is, it really MAY be the secret of success…ah, if only “success” were more important to me than doing-a-good-job. sigh.

“I’ve made not so subtle implications that CAD is to blame for everything from teenage pregnancy, to decreasing literacy, to intelligent design, onto the scourge of plastic cutlery. Given enough time -and leeway- I’ve been known to link the use of CAD templates to everything from the Black Death in the fourteenth century to the bombing of Dresden.”

That’s really funny.

I’m struggling to find my own voice on my blog too. I realize I have a problem with being too far removed and tech, but you seem to be balancing that well.