The documents you linked to don’t support your position, on the contrary they support the opposite.
This is not something reformable, it’s basic moral law, it’s not something that changes with time or culture. Some cultures are more holy, some cultures have corrupt practices. Some times too. But Catholic morality is for all times. When many people are doing very wrong, and when it is not as bad as that.
There is a mutual responsibility of both men and women neither to lust, nor to give occasion to lust. Both are. ‘Repent and sin no more’ means there was sin, and responsibility. That is what Jesus said, ‘Go and sin no more.’ to the adulterous woman.
When Eve first ate the apple in Genesis, she sinned by taking the apple, and she sinned by -offering- the apple, which was evil to eat, to Adam. So daughters of Eve repeat the firsts sins of Eve, over and over again. Adam sins by taking the apple that is offered.
There is a -mutual- responsibility. -Both- are responsible. -Neither- gets a pass.
God puts clothing on people in Genesis. They put on clothes twice, because it is not enough clothing the first time. This is how God is telling people to dress modestly enough. We aren’t going back pre-Fall times in this life. So you don’t get to walk around naked and to blame other people when they react to it.
That’s shameless exhibitionism. It’s the natural law to blush with shame if you tried something like this. A person who forgets this, is no longer sensitive to this, has developed a habit of vice that has suppressed the natural shame.
God is kind to us, he gives us natural shame to not do this that has to be overcome by bad habits to suppress.
If you offer someone poison, you sin by offering it. If you offer someone your body by leaving it unclothed, or improperly clothed, you sin by offering it. What is open to the public that should remain secret and private, when you do this, it is a sin. Because those who see it, because of the body and concupiscence, desire it.
If a starving person is put into a bakery, and smells all those scents, to salivate is something that is a bodily reaction that cannot be helped, barring the extraordinary supernatural grace. To battle against this bodily reaction will then be difficult.
Lust is like this. But no woman has occasion to dress in a way that provokes it. It’s not as innocent as baking cakes.
Young men especially, innocent young men and boys, have to be trained in modesty of the eyes, not to look at what should not be looked at, and young women too, have to be trained in modesty of clothing especially. Because they can caused others to sin this way, and go to Hell forever.
And God holds you responsible for this. Because you can tempt other people when if you take responsibility,
you quite easily do not have to.
Every person you help to send to Hell because you didn’t dress properly, God will
remember in your judgement.
A young man, an early martyr and saint, was tied up, and they sent a prostitute to tempt him so he would give in to the mortal sin. He bit off his own tongue, because in no other way could be prevent his bodily reaction, and thenceforth the strong temptation.
This temptation is worse than cravings for food that women can get. A woman should sympathize and understand her position, just as men have to understand their position and sympathize.
Depending how bad a person is with immodesty, it either has to be immediately taken care of, or taken care of step by step with education. If someone is immodest in the parish the first step is normally to talk to the priest so the priest can talk to the person as he is likely the one most capable of doing so. Sometimes the immodesty is small enough it can be left for a little time so that the person can learn by imitating more modest dressers in the parish. Other times has to be dealt with immediately.
But immodesty is -always- a sin.
'We read also in Father Nieremberg that a noble lady, who was exceedingly pious, asked God to make known to her what displeased His Divine Majesty most in persons of her sex.
The Lord vouchsafed in a miraculous manner to hear her. He opened under her eyes the Eternal Abyss.
There she saw a woman a prey to cruel torments and in her recognized one of her friends, a short time before deceased. This sight caused her as much astonishment as grief: the person whom she saw damned did not seem to her to have lived badly.
Then that unhappy soul said to her: “It is true that I practiced religion, but I was a slave of vanity. Ruled by the passion to please, I was not afraid to adopt indecent fashions to attract attention, and I kindled the fire of impurity in more than one heart. Ah! If Christian women knew
how much immodesty in dress displeases God!” At the same moment, this unhappy soul was pierced by two fiery lances, and plunged into a caldron of liquid lead.’
Rev. F.X. Schouppe, S.J.
