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I just asked my 6 and 9 year olds why they like wearing bikinis. 
-easier to take off to use the bathroom
- more opportunity to mix and match
- they like how the sun and water feel on their bellies
- 9 yr old thinks they're more whimsical and fun - she thinks one-pieces are for hardcore swimmers doing laps[/quote]

Obviously they have not yet learned to think of themselves as objects, rather than subjects. Good for you, PP! (<---sincere praise)

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Would you let them go naked? Why not? Much easier to go to the bathroom. Even MORE opportunity to feel water and sun on skin. I guess it's less matchy-matchy, but other than that why not full nudity or topless?

Clearly there are some standards of what's appropriate and they are dictated by societal standards of modesty and privacy, so stop pretending that this is a value-free choice for little girls who are untainted by objectification. [/quote]

Yes, there are standards of what's appropriate. That is why, for example, people typically wear swimsuits to the swimming pool and office clothes to the office. This has nothing to do with "modesty" and "privacy".  And especially not "modesty" defined as "this much of women's bodies must be covered up, because women's bodies are sexual objects by definition."

If you object to society turning girls into sexual objects, then stop turning girls into sexual objects. Society's obsession with covering women's bodies is just as sexually objectifying as pants with "juicy" printed on the rear. More, in fact, because it's possible to avoid wearing pants with "juicy" printed on the rear, but it's not possible to avoid people who are obsessed with covering women's bodies in the name of "modesty".[b] The opposite of "modest" is "prideful", not "bare skin"[/b].[/quote]

I actually don't have any idea what that means.

Also, I don't think it has anything to do with turning girls into sexual objects because I feel the same way about boys and them having respect for their bodies. Plus, I would honestly rather see them run around naked. I have no problem with taking pride and pleasure in bodies. [/quote]

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