Why I Purchased my First One-Piece Since Childhood

I recently purchased this bathing suit for a few reasons.

A. It is really dang cute.

B. Who wouldn't want to dress up every time they went to the beach?

C. I haven't had a cute bathing suit since probably the very beginning of high school.

D. It is super cheap

and finally

E. It is modest...

Now don't get me wrong, I am all about letting my belly get some sun, it feels great. It is also next to impossible to find a bathing suit that is modest and allows you to do that at the same time, never mind a cute one.

I am not typically too fond of one piece bathing suits...they don't tend to be very attractive, and let's be honest it is inconvenient to have to go to the bathroom in one of those things.

I like a good two piece...for a while I was wearing board shorts and a tankini...however you spell that...
It was convenient, allowed me to mix and match, and modest....but it wasn't cute...
I went through the bathing suit shorts and a sports bra phase...ok doesn't show as much as a bikini and allowed for some tummy sun...

...but but but...then I saw something...no it wasn't a post about immodesty being immoral, it wasn't a meme about how being modest is hottest, it wasn't the very cute bathing suit I bought and am anxiously awaiting the arrival of in the mail...

It was a photo...of some rich playboy with all of his women surrounding him...

Ok Britt this isn't too unusual on the internet these days...and ya that's right...but here was this man surrounded by beautiful women...with hardly any clothes on

ladies...STICKERS DO NOT COUNT AS CLOTHING...they just don't...but here is what surprised me...

I wasn't shocked by any of it...

Ok, I could see the naked bodies of these women minus a few stickers, and it wasn't something that shocked me...like not at all...I really thought "hmmmm well that actually doesn't look much different than a bikini..."

Well shoot, I don't want people seeing so much of me that they can already tell what I look like naked....my nakedness is something private...not something for everyone on the whole beach.

And come on ladies...don't you want to save a little bit of something special for your wedding night...I would hate to be on my honey moon and not have anything new to give to my husband...I want to keep it a mystery, something special for him and only him.

I saw this photo and it scared me. It scared me that we are so used to seeing, and showing so much of our bodies that there isn't any mystery left; isn't any privacy left; isn't anything but a few inches left unseen.

So I bought this one piece, not to hide my body, but to protect it; to keep it special....and to look pretty cute doing so :)

I bought it for myself and for my future husband, to keep our relationship intimate and between us rather than open to the whole world. I bought it because my body is beautiful and should be seen in a respectful manner.

I'm not telling you to do the same, I'm not saying to never wear a 2-piece bathing suit...I'm just saying think about it...how much of yourself are you giving to the world free of charge...without demanding respect and without love? Are you going to wish one day that you had kept it private?