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Exposure to Immodest Dress

Question

At what age should a boy no longer be exposed to girls and who are not dressed modestly, e.g. at a women’s swimming pool?

Answer

From an age at which he starts remembering things, say after 4 or 5, he shouldn’t be exposed to women not modestly dressed. Another indication of the cutoff age would be from the time when women who usually dress modestly in front of men start to feel even slightly uncomfortable when they are not modestly dressed in front of a boy of that age. This too is very relative, and depends on the maturity of the child.