afraid I must strongly advise against going there unless you can find a spot in which one is not constantly in the occasion of sin. If not, you need to forego. I have nonetheless been greatly pleased to learn that there are growing numbers of women who would never be seen in one of the immodest outfits mentioned earlier. I was also pleasantly surprised to learn recently that there are local pools that reserve certain hours for female bathing only. This denotes respect for women and provides them with an opportunity to bathe without being watched by men. It also proves that there are many more women who want to dress modestly than you might think by walking down the street in the summer. The numbers are growing. Common sense always makes a comeback. You asked if the beach is a “safe-space” where men have no temptations. I think what I have already said answers that. Think for a minute. What you asked would mean that as soon as a woman sets foot on a beach, even though she is virtually naked and might even, without any reprehensible intentions, assume suggestive postures which would be condemned in any other place as downright seduction, temptation in men suddenly diminishes, sleeps, or perhaps dies. But if the same woman in the same attire walks down the street or knocks at the door of his house, he is supposed to somehow recover the effects of Original Sin? I hope you see the nonsense. You also asked if it would be OK to pray before going to the beach so that men won’t be tempted when seeing you. That is a praiseworthy thing to do, but it does not dispense you from dressing modestly! No, there is no place where men are not tempted by a beautiful woman. The devil does not sleep, and even when the flesh appears to be dormant, it never dies until it is dead. Forget not King David. He was a saint, a man according to the Heart of God. And yet, it took only a bathing beauty, whom he spied from the roof of his palace, to smite him down. The sight of this woman (who by the way was not necessarily entirely naked) so kindled in his heart the fire of concupiscence, as to lead him to the double crime of adultery and murder. Today bathing beauties continue to be an alluring bait dangled before the eyes of fallen men plagued with concupiscence, and who, like the fly drawn by the fire, are scorched to death by the poison of lust that is injected into their hearts by the exhibition of flesh. For good men, the practical consequence of this is that most beaches are off limits. The immodest, impure fashions prevent them from enjoying the innocent pleasures which a beach could afford. 89
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