It appears to me that many women have trouble understanding this basic fact
of life: Men generally are by nature much more attracted to a woman for
her physical beauty than women are to a handsome man. Not having
experienced this intuitive attraction/distraction, they seem to feel that
the male gender should just "control themselves" and leave women alone!
Now all agree men should control themselves; the question is how. The
Shulchan Aruch (Code of Jewish Law) considers the clothing women wear a
major part of the equation. Should a woman wear as little as she feels like,
we have already established that any man looking at her will become
physically
attracted and perhaps aroused.
"So" you say, "let men just avoid looking in the direction of any female".
Is that really what you as a woman would like? Whenever you walk into a
room all religous men should instinctivly turn their heads away and talk to
you while looking in a different direction?
Is this more practical than asking women to dress modestly?
The Shulchan Aruch states that the bifarcation of a woman's legs is
sexually suggestive to a man's psyche. One may justifiably argue about a
particular dress being more risque than many a pair of slacks; that is not
the issue. If it IS risque, than do not wear it in public!