According to Nwabueze (2000), indecent dressing could lead to the following:
1. Sexual Harassment:
There is the likelihood that ladies who dress indecently or provocatively could be prone to sexual harassment and or rape. These forms of dresses suggest that such ladies need attention and that they are irresponsible and so there are always irresponsible men to dialogue, lure or force them to bed for sex.
2. HIV/AIDS:
This is another risk factor that immodestly dressed ladies could be prone to. When such ladies are forced into sex against their will they may be exposed to venereal diseases because of lack of protection. One of such killer diseases is HIV/AIDS.
3. Campus Prostitution:
Skimpy, transparent and or body exposing dresses are known in ancient Africa to be the dress pattern of prostitutes or whores. Most ladies found in such dresses are always negotiated for sex or social intimacy because they are most times thought to be without husbands. Apart from this notion, most campus ladies that dress this way engage in prostitution and commercial sex to be able to sponsor and sustain these forms of dresses. The cumulative effect of this is unwanted pregnancies, HIV/AIDS infection and death.
4. Ritual Killing:
This is another consequence that indecently dressed youths particularly the female ones are amenable. Many of them based on their mode of dressing had been invited for a supposed sex only to be murdered by ritual killers.
5. Tendency to Steal:
In attempt to look modern and be like others, many of these youths had taken to stealing and armed robbery. The boys for instance, under financial pressure from their girl-friends could resort to armed robbery to square up to this demand to impress and keep their “babes”.
6. Lying:
The home background of some of these students may not allow for prostitution, stealing or armed robbery but to keep afloat and up-to-date with what is in vogue, they may resort to lying “the lesser sin”, to obtain the money they need from their parents.
7. Poor Performance in School Work:
Most students in this form of dresses tend to have little or no serious time for their academic work. Their concern is mostly how to look good and appear in the latest stuff. Several of them battle with carry over courses with the consequences of staying longer in the school than is normal to graduate, graduate with very weak grades and some may not even graduate at all having outlived their studentship in the college and not being able to pass some prescribed courses. Some of such get back into the society frustrated. They become confrontational and destructive. If they are not thugs, they are armed robbers, prostitutes, home or marriage breakers, drug traffickers or addicts.
8. Sin against God and Humanity:
Sin is seen to be the transgression of the law. Every society has a code of conduct. There are moral and penal codes. A violation of any is always sanctioned. A lady that dresses to lure men into immorality whether the act is practiced or imagined in the heart is guilty against God. Armed robbery, prostitution, rape, lying and ritual killing which are associated with indecent dressing are all sins that God and humanity hate.
Thanks. Very helpful
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