The Khaleej Times is reporting that some store is selling underwear with bible verses printed on them and the names of God and Jesus are visible (as in "For God so loved the world…). I have to ask, has Jesus become some sort of turn-on for people? I’m trying to understand why there would be underwear with printed bible verses. I can think of two reasons although neither one of them makes much sense.
The come-on could be for people that are turned on by seeing or reading bible verses. While I’ve never encountered this fetish in person I’m sure that such a thing must exist. Why do I say that? Well, if you can think it then somebody else already has and set up a webcam to show everyone else how erotic it is. Anyway, if the intention of printing bible verses on underwear is to heighten sexual arousal in certain individuals I think it fails. You have to remove the underwear in order to have sex, thus removing said bible verses from the field of vision. I think that if you’re trying to sell a product to this crowd it needs to be more along the lines of a pair of glasses with some text on the inside of the lenses that only the wearer can read. Problem solved for scripture fetishists.
The only other reason I can think of to print bible verses on underwear is to provide some sort of protection to the wearer. The problem I have with this though is that only your genitals are protected. What good does that do you if you happen to like having a head or arms? While I understand the want for protection I think this sort of thing is only good as extra protection. In order for the holy underwear to provide extra protection you must be wearing outer clothes with bible verses printed on them as well and as far as I can tell you wouldn’t be able to wear short sleeves. Also, your head would have to be completely covered and this would make it difficult to see. Unless you cut holes in your holy garment and wore the glasses that I talked about earlier.
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