Reply To: “Frum” female singers on YouTube

Avira:

1. Your last response is giving a different reason that your previous response to me. This is fine, but I just want to point this out.

2. “Not all erva is the same.. It’s a davar pashut.” I feel the same. But I’d like to see this point made in the Halachic literature rather than rely on our gut feelings — possibly incorrectly.

3. Getting back to how this point fits into the original discussion, we were discussing the inappropriateness of women posting YouTube videos of themselves singing. I am asserting that the Halachic reason this is inappropriate is the same as why it is inappropriate for a woman to post a YouTube video giving swimming lessons. (Without getting into which is comparatively “more wrong” than the other; which might be a bit like debating if it is worse to beat an innocent person up than to steal his car.)