Well Duh!
August 12, 2009 Leave a Comment
There’s a story making the rounds about a former Ohio police officer who suing his former employer. Seems like the officer claims he was harrassed and suffered a hostile working environment by his fellow employees making comments about his wife posing for Playboy magazine. The harrassment included things like fellow officers asking for autographs and copies of the magazine.
I made the mistake of googling her name without selecting the option to turn off images in the search and I can ashamedly say that she is indeed naked on the Internet. A link to a story (This one is safe for work, no naughty pictures.) can be found here. From the story:
“It just became unbearable for the officer. He was repeatedly asked for the issue of Playboy. Ever since his wife posed for Playboy, it’s just been an unbearable environment for him to be in,“ Sherrod said. Source: NBC4i.com
This just begs the question: What did they think was going to happen? Isn’t that the whole point of posing naked in a magazine is to draw attention to one’s naughty bits? If your wife posed in her birthday suit, wouldn’t you expect people, from complete strangers to your co-workers to have an unusual or even a lewd interest in her and her now public “private parts”? Why do you think they are called “private parts”?
This doesn’t excuse the lecherous behavior of his co-workers but there is an old principle that our actions have consequences. That’s the main reason we see certain principles taught in scripture like this one:
“…women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control” 1 Timothy 2:9 ESV
BTW, The Greek word translated here as “modesty” means just that “modest”. It’s pretty safe to say that the Apostle Paul used the word because he felt it was the opposite of naked as a jaybird.
I don’t mean to say all this to pile on this poor guy and his clothing impaired wife, it sounds like this whole thing is turning out not to be the good idea they thought it was at first. But see, that’s the problem with sin. Many times it seems like a good idea at first, only to turn out to be something less so, or even downright horrible later on. God doesn’t give us the prohibitions in the Bible because he’s a cosmic killjoy. He does so because he loves us and knows that some things just aren’t a good idea.
Shalom,
Scott D
