Just returning from Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street I found myself wondering if the girls flashing is a zero-sum game?

Does the amount of respect the girl loses for herself outweigh the enjoyment of the crowd? I would say that the amount of respect loss is proportional to the number of people watching. I know that it was not as exciting to see a girl flash if you knew that she was doing it all the time, or that it meant nothing to her (eg Her flashing was not causing her to lose respect for herself anymore).

Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed watching girls flash. :) But then again I still felt proud of a girl when she did not succumb to the pressure, nor used plastic beads to rationalize it because she truly did not want to.