tb,
I don’t advocate anyone putting himself into sakana. But it is still easier to learn when you stay in your daled amos of the yeshivah, than if you venture into the world, get a job, and still manage to do your learning. A true ben Torah does not have to fear the real world. He has already been given the tools to fight the “sakanas hamakom.” It is the boys who are not streetwise, who have not been out in the world, who when FORCED into the world (as we all must be, if we are to make a parnassah), cannot cope with some of the things they see. Being sheltered is a double edged sword. If you do not get an innoculation by exposure to a small amount of a disease, you cannot develop the proper immunity to it, either. Neighbors of mine from my childhood, lovely people, always dressed their youngest son in all white. He was a sweet boy, but never allowed to get dirty, or play normally. The child never had a spot on him. He became ill, and had no immunities to anything, and died that year of a compromised immune system. The best way to fight the yetzer hara is to face it head on and use the learned lessons of Torah to combat it. And I repeat one more time (am I certfiably crazy, too?), if it is sakana for Yeshivah men to go out in the world, how much MORE so is it for the women, who are forced to do so in order to support their husbands by working in the men’s stead. Sorry – there is something very wrong with that picture. The women need protection from the shmutz outside, much more than their husbands do. yet no one sees anything at all wrong with THEM being exposed to it, because it means the guys get to stay in the Beis Medrash.