How Threats of Hellfire Kept 'Immodest' Women in Their Place

In the opening of Netflix's popular new show "My Unorthodox Life," fashion mogul Julia Haart explains that she grew up thinking that dressing provocatively had eternal consequences: "It was your mother's responsibility to teach you modesty. If any of your body parts were uncovered, there's a very special form of hell that is reserved for both you and your mother. In this hell, your mother would dip your clothes in acid, put them on your body, and so throughout the day your body would decompose from the acid. And then the next morning it would start all over again, for thousands of years, or however many years hell lasts. When you learn this as a child, and everyone around you believes it, you believe it."