So what all of you are saying is that a woman, scandalously dressed, has absolutely no effect on anyone else and has played no role if someone else is sexually attracted to her?
I get it now. There is no intellectual honesty on this board but instead a covering of sins and responsibility.
I think some of the church's teachings about sexuality are unhealthy, but that's another subject and is irrelevant to our taking responsibility for our thoughts and actions. If I can't see a pretty girl without getting aroused and masturbating, that's my problem, not hers, not the church's, nor anyone else's.
"Pretty" is not the issue. What you've been telling us is that "girls in bikinis" play no role in sexual attraction.
Your previous post is a tacit admission that this is what you believe, or that you have trouble parsing what sexual attraction really is, by denying that "girls in bikinis" have no effect on men.
CFR.
See tacit.
On the contrary, I said we are responsible for the effect they have on us.
Okay good. They have an effect. So the question returns to what is our responsibility knowing that we effect others and how what effects are appropriate or not.