Respectable women adopt protective posing to enforce their own chastity norms

Evidence

The Sweet Young Thing. As the name suggests, this is a style most commonly assumed by “respectable” young women who are extremely anxious to remain that way. This is not the style of the “liberated” woman, but of the woman who truly believes all the propaganda she’s heard that “nice girls don’t.” — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 873

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s article ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ — the Sweet Young Thing’s posture regime is a modern, individual-level performance of the same modesty code Seneca and sumptuary laws policed structurally. — connects to: For girls, sexual expression and self-expression are inseparable even in chastity pledges — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in…, 123
• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’: this is the internalized, self-policing counterpart to externally imposed modesty laws — the woman performs modesty for herself, not just for male judges.