SI Swimsuit Issues- See-through shots
IronFox22
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http://goo.gl/1KOeU1 (Anastasia Ashley)
http://goo.gl/BLEsYW (Anastasia Ashley)
http://goo.gl/mCwz0i (Stephanie Seymour)
I'm not complaining of course. I just find it interesting that a little bit of mesh suddenly changes a topless shot into a non-topless shot that can go in a mainstream publication like Sports Illustrated (even when the nipples are so obviously still visible). There's likely no good answer to this, but I'm bored today so decided to see what the board thinks.
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I believe in the 1800's, it was not acceptable at one time to wear shorts in public and it was like wearing underwear in public, totally unacceptable. If people didn't keep pushing boundaries, we'd be stuck living as prudes. Over in Europe and in south Florida, topless beaches are not unusual. Go topless in public in other places in the US and someone might arrest the girl.
It is really screwed up here in South Carolina in Greenville. At two strip clubs, dancers must cover their nipples with pasties but less than an hour away in Asheville, women can protest in public topless. It just isn't fair.
From a Slate article --> "Campbell's 1978 issue proved a watershed moment for cheesecake. In Brazil, Campbell had persuaded model Cheryl Tiegs to pose for a throwaway shot in a white fishnet top, her nipples fully exposed. Somehow the shot made its way into the magazine. According to The Franchise,Michael MacCambridge's excellent history of the magazine, nasty letters poured into Time-Life headquarters—more than 340 subscriptions were cancelled—and the swimsuit issue reached new heights of ignominy. But in some ways, the Tiegs fiasco was also a logical endpoint. Barring nudity, the Sports Illustrated model had nothing left to reveal. Thus for the next few decades the editors had to maintain a careful balance: They had to make the issue seem much racier than it actually was, while still maintaining its wholesome aesthetic." --> end quote from Slate
reference: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_p…