Hence, women s studies are declared an intellectual province, while philosophy is taken to be provincial. But against this, modesty in academia allows for the pursuit of wisdom because it does not confuse the universality and commonness of intellectual things with the particularity and exclusiveness of bodily things. This is not a Manichaean position. Modesty acknowledges the body. In regard to academia, the need for sexual modesty is a recognition of what should be an obvious, natural truth.
Institutions owe it to their students to minimize such distractions.
Even on the mean level of economics, students are paying tens of thousands of dollars to attend such institutions of higher learning. The culture is already saturated with it, and most of it is free. If the university is selling itself as offering what cannot be gotten elsewhere, then its focus should be intellectual not sexual. Benjamin D. Wiker a former tutor at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California, currently teaches at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville, Ohio.