Hello which Kerala are u from? I am 33. So when I was a child women should have been going around in Kerala topless!!! My mother is 72 years old and she used to weare a blouse from her young age. Even her mother used to wear one. So this is total bogus information. You have to go back much more years when women were not used to wearing blouse in Kerala
Then according to ur info are women below 10 and above 50 going bare chested to the shrine? Come on man, talk some sense.
Imagine u are in a place were there is no food. Then u can't say u are fasting. It becomes real fasting when there is food available, u know it is available and still resist the temptation to eat. Similarly, to be a real Brahmachari, u should see women & resist the temptations of flesh. There is no greatness in being a brahmachari without seeing any women. If normal human beings have achieved it living among women, then u are implying that ayyapa is weaker than humans and thus degrading him.
If we always kept traditions we would have been still following sathi and untouchable traditions. Traditions had a meaning when it was formed, when it is not applicable in current era, they should be changed.