On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:

> Within the world of SI, yes. It's their biggest "issue" of the year (no
> longer is it part of the regular schedule), packed with ads.
>
> I think it's still relevant because it's the closest thing there is to
> "clean porn". These are gorgeous women dressed skimpily (or just body
> painted), and almost all with flawless, tattoo-free skin (and Photoshop
> will take care of the rest). Yes, you can get anything you want on the Web,
> but I'd proffer a guess that once you start going down that road, past the
> Playboys (I'm at work, so researching will just have to wait, thank you),
> you start finding that things start to get dirty (and not from the
> moralistic perspective): the models get a little skankier, the quality of
> what you see starts to degrade, and you start averting your eyes a little
> more.
>

It will always be relevant to me.

Fond memories of 13 year old self who had received an SI subscription for
the first time for Christmas getting that first Swimsuit issue that
February - not understanding what kind of totally cool God in what fabulous
heaven had put these pictures in a magazine delivered directly to me under
my mother's roof. And then Cheryl Tiegs taught us all just exactly what
nipples were.

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