Why morality matters

Pleasure is pain. Pain is pleasure. Hot is cold. Cold is hot. Love is hate. Hate is love. Up is down. Down is up.

These statements are nonsense. They are all blatant and obvious contradictions - clearly, completely and utterly meaningless. That is why I chose them.

But what would you say if someone tried to tell you they were true? Would you think they were nuts? Or would you admire their progressive insight, and write a long and pretty ode to them in the hopes that you might make a small contribution towards immortalizing their genius?

Hopefully you would call them crazy, because none of these statements makes any sense at all. No mature, rational person would believe that such contradictions could ever be spoken in earnest, let alone be asserted as facts, let alone profound ones.

So why do so many seemingly rational and intelligent people make exactly this mistake when it comes to their views about the morality of female beauty? There is an alarmingly popular tendency today (and in the past) for clearly intelligent human beings who enjoy the beauty of women and know it to be an important value in their lives to allow it and themselves to be branded as dirty for admiring and enjoying that beauty. In fact, they do not wait for those who disapprove of them to brand them this way, instead they happily pride themselves on beating disapprovers to the punch by branding themselves this way!

There are more examples than seconds in a day, so here are just a few:

"A dirty mind is a joy forever" - Oscаr Wіldе

"Sex is dirty, if you do it right" - Isааc Asіmоv

"I am a dirty girl and I am proud" - http://www.bigess.co.uk/dirty

In fact, there is an entire website dedicated to this view - that admiring women is both dirty and good at the same time. It is called Thе Dіrty Old Mеn's Association, or DOMAI.com. Their latest article tells us that all great men in the past were 'dirty', meaning, they openly loved beautiful women, and they offer Isааc Asіmоv as example.

There are a great many others less dedicated to calling themselves 'dirty' on principle, but who nonetheless betray an obvious belief that what they love is immoral, with site names like Slυtty Gоddеssеs or Nаυghty Bυt Classy. It took me about 10 seconds to find this example on Foxes.com: "Isn't it about time for some naughty but classy posing from our lovely fitness model, Jennifer?"

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Now don't get me wrong, both DOMAI and FOXES are good sites as far as they go. And they are loved by thousands as some of the most beautiful and respectful sites online, besides Body in Mind that is. ;-). They obviously adore women and their beauty, almost as much as we do. This is why I am mentioning them. And this is exactly my point, if anyone should know better, it's them.

They obviously love women and their beauty, so why are they and so many others willing to believe that morality (admiring and upholding the sanctity of a value like female beauty) is immoral?

They have not been subjected to some kind of inhumanly brutal torture or to extended brainwashing sessions by some aberrant cult; they still have the capacity to know up from down and right from wrong. Why then do they not know clean values from dirty ones? Why do they reserve special room in their philosophy for one glaringly contradictory and disastrous exception to common sense?

Surely they would not deny the inevitable impending physical destruction of any one who earnestly believes that up is down. They can easily see that anyone who sincerely believes that love is hate will most certainly lose the one they love. So why do they not see that allowing themselves and female beauty to be branded as immoral will lead to the loss or destruction of both female beauty and their freedom to love it?

After all, in countries where they define female beauty as immoral and this definition is left unchallenged, women are paying the price, with their pathetic hides, and with their lives. (See any fundamentalist Islamic society)

This is because the accepted morality of any day always leads to that society's political practices. Politics are the principles by which we form governments. Morality is how we choose the values and standards by which we guide our choices and actions in our personal lives. Each of us has his or her own private moral code or set of values. We choose what is right for us as human beings, and we avoid what is wrong. Because governments potentially have total power over their citizens, people inevitably choose their political principles very carefully, in order to avoid entrenched injustice and irreversable tyranny. Thus they look to morality to help define their political principles. This is how the accepted morality in any society inevitably finds its way into its laws. There is no government on earth that has not been formed or does not continue to be formed this way.

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This is why morality matters. And it's why our moral defintion of female beauty is so crucial. No one who loves beauty can in good conscience allow it or themselves to be labelled immoral, no matter how hip or amusing such a label might seem to them, or how many 'respectable' others have done it, or for how long. Defining female beauty as a value, as a moral pursuit or ethical subject of reverence, as a phenomenon capable of influencing the definition of moral and political laws, and determining the direction our very lives, is new. It is my own. And its most fundamental tenet is the idea that enjoying the beauty of women is not dirty, but moral - indeed, highly moral. It is the result of being a good person, of having values, deeply held, objective values. Whenever you see these values represented or symbolized or personified or embodied in a woman, you find her beautiful. It's as simple as that. For example, if you value intelligence, you will adore women who appear intelligent, women who seem to have brains, women you can have an inspiring exchange of ideas with. But if you have a dark side or are an outright evil person, you will be attracted to stupid girls, girls who are easily fooled, used, and abused.

Many men have a "mixed bag" of values, some considered, objective and rational, others bizarre, and contradictory, which they have gleened uncritically from the culture around them, by a kind of intellectual osmosis. But people without any values whatsoever, or with values that are twistedly out of touch with objective reality, are not capable of enjoying beauty at all. In fact, it bothers them, it taunts them, it represents a good, clean, enjoyable life, a life they cannot seem to achieve (due to their twisted morality, their irrational and impossible values), it embodies the opposite of their values and is ugly to them. Sometimes we call these people serial killers; sometimes we use less criminal names when such people have not actually broken laws.

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They are the kind of people who want you to believe that love is hate and hate is love (so they can get away with murdering people), that up is down and down is up (so they can destroy the minds of our young), and that good is bad and bad is good (so they can make you feel inferior to them).

Such is the purpose of someone who tries to tell you that admiring female beauty and the human values it represents is immoral, dirty, or naughty.

Men or women who define themselves as dirty for admiring female beauty, or allow themselves to be, and encourage others to do so, are not great. They are destroying female beauty a little bit every day, and betraying the very thing they claim to love.

They are immoral. They are, as they admit, dirty.

For example, how can anyone look at the lovely ladies in today's gallery by Jаrоmіr Plеskо without awe and reverence? How could anyone think of them as dirty?

Can you?

No. We didn't think so.

Kinda makes you wonder how and why anyone would, doesn't it?

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© 2003 by Dwayne and Lеаnnе Bеll | Photos © 2003 by Jаrоmіr Plеskо

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