" Sisters of Battle always was something like female templars to me, not the ' naughty nuns.' Fanatic knights. So, IMHO, all these "boob-shaped chestplate + iron corset" designs is just a big pile of bullshit."

Realism? Space Marines running with thick ceramite armor but not wearing helmets is a bigger problem in practicality. Same goes for Sororitas.

It's not their fault if some prissy prude thinks their battle armour is lewd. Lewdness is in the eye of the beholder.

Did you know high heels and corsets were originally for male nobles to mold themselves to more "heroic" proportions? Even when women started using it was just another piece of clothing in formal attire. Lewdness is just something modern plebs associated it with for no reason. Do you consider modern bussinesswear suits lewd? Thought so.

Hell, apparently even plain nun's attire in real life is a sexual fetish in porn! Are we going to start calling that lewd now, just because some weirdos have a particular fetish?



And I don't know if it's specified in the fluff, but maybe Sororitas DO wear those things to look saucy. Who knows how their organizations work? They are NOT Catholic nuns, no matter how much iconography they borrow from it. Maybe a lot of them aren't uptight about appearing like "dominatrixes." They deal more with the civilians than many Astartes do, maybe that's why. Appearances and celibacy are separate things, otherwise you sound like those rapists who claim their victims' attire clearly meant they were asking for it! If some weirdo horndog wants to bed Sororitas because of how their armor looks, too bad, it's their problem, not the Sororitas'.