Women’s costumes are, on the whole, much more sexualized than men’s costumes, and teen/kids costumes are adopting it more and more as well. Perhaps the point of the post is to promote thought about it, and to pose the chicken-and-egg question on sexy Halloween. The trend is driven by consumerism, but is that consumerism also influenced by the trend? It’s complex and perhaps unanswerable, but worth acknowledging and considering.

But, no it is not difficult to find more modest adult Halloween outfits. I just searched for Halloween costumes on Google. Try it. Put in “Halloween outfits”. Go to any one of the sponsored links and you will find a ton of modest adult female costumes. Also, try either of the first two non-sponsored search results – plenty more. I can put in links to every one of those pages if you’d like.

That obvious truth – that there are plenty of non-sexualized costumes for women is what led me to think the blog is really a more covert way of disagreeing with the sexy Halloween costumer trend. But if it is not really about that then I’m not sure what point are you making?

I say admit that you are against the increasing sexualization of Halloween and tell us why – not just because it means you only have the choice to wear sexy outfits when that isn’t true. Tell us you don’t want to wear those outfits because you don’t like being looked at as a sex object. Or admit that there are plenty of non-sexualized choices but you feel uncomfortable choosing them because you think society expects something different. Whatever – but I think that basic premise is just untrue.

Instead, what I think is interesting about how sexual in nature the Halloween outfits have become is asking “Why is this happening?” Why are these outfits so popular? Doesn’t it say something about how our culture has repressed the latent sexuality of women that we take this one opportunity a year to let our sexuality out? Maybe we go a bit overboard in response because we aren’t allowed to during the rest of year. Maybe some of us actually like being looked at as sex objects sometimes?

Look kids, it’s as simple as this, if you want to dress up as a slut, go for it!!1!

If you CHOOSE otherwise (and choice is something you can control) then don’t. (!!!1!)

On another note, why does everyone buy a ready made costume. The best ones I saw were homemade outfits at the parties I went to: Zombie Juno, a Little Sister from Bioshock and the princess from Braid.