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Is it immoral for women to wear G-strings?
By Davisca Nnamani,
Special Correspondent
Wunmi never knew the fury of Jide, her husband, until she forced it out of him the day he saw a G-string pant on her waist. "What in heaven is this you are putting on?" he blurted out in anger. One look at him, and Wunmi knew he did not approve of it. But Shayo, her friend, had told her the reward she received for wearing a G-string was her suckling child. Hers was turning out to be different. Unlike her friend, Wunmi got a beautiful tongue-lashing.
G-string panties have really come of age. The sexy/flirty design of the underwear brings out the curves of every woman - size, shape and weight. But that is by the side. Most Nigerian women, who believe in putting on clothes without the panty lines showing, cannot live without it. But do the men see it from that perspective?
As the saying goes, one man's meat is another's poison. Some men see nothing wrong in a woman putting on the Japanese-oriented design of underwear, while some view it as not only indecent but the height of immorality.
"Fashion, as we all know, has many faces and one of these falls on the type of underwear ladies use. The G- string is another way of modernising what the women use within. Ladies who put on G-strings do not really mean to harass anyone sexually. They are only trying to prevent their panty lines from showing when they wear trousers or transparent skirts," says Dr. Femi Fagbemi. Seduction is the name of the game, however. A woman or lady is usually tagged seductress' if she wears outfits that expose her vitals like the breast, cleavages and waistlines. But most men condemn G-string pants as an attempt at seducing men while others believe only strippers and prostitutes wear such. "There is nothing I detest like a woman who sees nothing wrong in dressing waywardly. When a woman is seen as loose because of her dressing, it involves the inner wears too. The other day a woman came to sell some panties to my wife. I thought they were simple and normal but when she put them on, the sight of what greeted my eyes dazed me. Her backside stared at me just like God created it. Then a thin string rested on the wait line. Repulsively, I asked her to return the Ashewo pant else she would face the music. Out of anger, I went to the seller's house and reported the case to her husband. I also warned the wife never to bring such things to my house again," said Joe Uwakwe.
But Mr. John Nnamdi has a different attitude. "The fact that a woman puts on G-string pants doesn't make her a slut or cheap. There are different reasons why people put on those things. Personally, there is nothing wrong if my wife or girlfriend wears a G-string pant. Most of those men oppose to the idea y have girlfriends who use these things. And they appreciate it on those ladies," he said, adding that if that is the case, the ladies should be left alone.
Does that mean women who put on G-strings are committing sin since some men view it as immoral? Mr. Harrison Mukoro, a tailor by profession, says: "The word of God says we as heirs to the kingdom. We should be modest in dressing especially the women. The Bible is the guide for every child of God and if it tells us to dress decently, why shouldn't we? That pant is far from being moral. This is a pant that reveals all the buttocks of the woman and covers only a little of the front, is she still not naked? Is it not better she wears nothing?
The women are not left out. Mrs. Grace Ogbonna believes only women without a sense of decency think of putting on G-strings. "Most women who wear this kind of pants complain that normal pants give room for men to see their pant lines. But I say it is absolute trash. There are times when girls wear some kind of trousers that reveal the G-strings they are wearing. What I am saying is that G-string does not elevate any woman who claims to be God-fearing," she said.
But what has God got to do with the kind of pants ladies wear? "So much. The Bible tells us not to be like the people of the world. If you wear a G-string as a Christian, you are like the people of the world. Do not wear what they wear and that includes skimpy pants," says Deaconess Ajoke Talabi.
For Janet Terva," the G-string is a relief to young girls like me. It is very convenient to put on. Personally, I don't use any other pant except G-strings. There is nothing wrong with it. Fashion has seen the essence of changing the kind of underwear ladies put on. And people are saying otherwise."
Salamatu Hanatife shares the same view. "It is all about fashion. Wearing a G-string has nothing to do with immorality. Who sees what is beneath your clothes? No one. So, why dictate the kind of pant your woman should put on? There is no point in it. Times are changing. And we should move and change with it. It is a sexy underwear that makes any man appreciate what you have if he gets to see them privately."
Ama Peterside says: "It is an underwear I cannot do without. I love the G-string and do not believe there is anything wrong with it."
If G-string is part of the changing fashion trend, why do some people loathe it? Women, unlike men have various reasons for wearing G- strings. And like Salamatu said, who sees what is beneath, if not only those who have the right to do so?
"Only a woman who does not know why she should wear an underwear would use a pant like that. I always buy my wife's panties and a G-string would never be one of her collections," says Adams Okoye, a marketing officer with an advertising firm. Panties are meant to cover the vital parts of any man or woman, but for this piece of cloth held together by a string and a thin-lined piece at the back, it leaves every other thing at the back exposed. Does that amount to being indecent?
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