Why don't the girls in Maxim or Stuff Magazine have nipples?

[Salvador]

I was just looking through my free subscriptions the other day thanks to the hot deals forums and noticed that though the girls are in super provacative poses and the magazines use all kinds of sexual inuendo's, the girls don't have visible nipples. It looks like they are photoshopped out. Come on!! It's not like I haven't seen a nipple before. What is it with the American sensorship?

Sal

 

[Viper GTS]

Stuff & Maxim are Playboy without the porn stigma.

They avoid the porn stigma by not showing nipples, among other things.

Deal with it.

Viper GTS

 

[Aves]

Self-imposed censorship in order to get their magazines sold in more places and have them out in the open not behind the counter.

 

[Aves]

Oh and the lack of nipples still wasn't enough to keep them on the shelves at Wal-Mart.

Pretty stupid if you ask me but then again, I don't run Wal-Mart.

 

[Muck]

The Maxim Hot 100 show that was on tonight.....they actually stopped and freeze-framed Elisha Cuthbert's picture and pointed out her nips.

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: Salvador
I was just looking through my free subscriptions the other day thanks to the hot deals forums and noticed that though the girls are in super provacative poses and the magazines use all kinds of sexual inuendo's, the girls don't have visible nipples. It looks like they are photoshopped out. Come on!! It's not like I haven't seen a nipple before. What is it with the American sensorship?

Sal

They do not have pubic hair either. Talk about a time warp back to the 1950's. When showin women's nipples or anyone's pubic hair was bad.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Muck
The Maxim Hot 100 show that was on tonight.....they actually stopped and freeze-framed Elisha Cuthbert's picture and pointed out her nips.

Pics?

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: Dr Smooth

Originally posted by: Salvador
I was just looking through my free subscriptions the other day thanks to the hot deals forums and noticed that though the girls are in super provacative poses and the magazines use all kinds of sexual inuendo's, the girls don't have visible nipples. It looks like they are photoshopped out. Come on!! It's not like I haven't seen a nipple before. What is it with the American sensorship?

Sal

They do not have pubic hair either. Talk about a time warp back to the 1950's. When showin women's nipples or anyone's pubic hair was bad.

Where do you live? That's bad in the USA in 2003...

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: aves2k
Oh and the lack of nipples still wasn't enough to keep them on the shelves at Wal-Mart.

Pretty stupid if you ask me but then again, I don't run Wal-Mart.

stupid walmart people are stuck in the 50's.

 

[Salvador]

stupid walmart people are stuck in the 50's.

What's crazy is that's where I see most of the inbreeders, especially at the Walmarts in farming communities. I guess it's all right to sleep with a relative and bear a child this way, but it's not ok to show nipples or pubic hair in magazines on store shelfs.

Sal

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: Dr Smooth

Originally posted by: Salvador
I was just looking through my free subscriptions the other day thanks to the hot deals forums and noticed that though the girls are in super provacative poses and the magazines use all kinds of sexual inuendo's, the girls don't have visible nipples. It looks like they are photoshopped out. Come on!! It's not like I haven't seen a nipple before. What is it with the American sensorship?

Sal

They do not have pubic hair either. Talk about a time warp back to the 1950's. When showin women's nipples or anyone's pubic hair was bad.

They don't have pubic hair because they shave it all off, since the cultural trend is that women should be more hairless than a prepubescent child!

 

[KaBudokan]

Originally posted by: Salvador

stupid walmart people are stuck in the 50's.

What's crazy is that's where I see most of the inbreeders, especially at the Walmarts in farming communities. I guess it's all right to sleep with a relative and bear a child this way, but it's not ok to show nipples or pubic hair in magazines on store shelfs.

Sal

Uummm... And you know this how?

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: HotChic

Originally posted by: Dr Smooth

Originally posted by: Salvador
I was just looking through my free subscriptions the other day thanks to the hot deals forums and noticed that though the girls are in super provacative poses and the magazines use all kinds of sexual inuendo's, the girls don't have visible nipples. It looks like they are photoshopped out. Come on!! It's not like I haven't seen a nipple before. What is it with the American sensorship?

Sal

They do not have pubic hair either. Talk about a time warp back to the 1950's. When showin women's nipples or anyone's pubic hair was bad.

They don't have pubic hair because they shave it all off, since the cultural trend is that women should be more hairless than a prepubescent child!

Its more likely that they will wax (ouch)........

 

[jaydee]

Originally posted by: Salvador

stupid walmart people are stuck in the 50's.

What's crazy is that's where I see most of the inbreeders, especially at the Walmarts in farming communities. I guess it's all right to sleep with a relative and bear a child this way, but it's not ok to show nipples or pubic hair in magazines on store shelfs.

Sal

What do you, take polls at every store you go into? That is such an idiotic post.

 

[LordJezo]

A while back Maxim had an article devoted to the dumbest things ever invented... I wonder why the left out "airbrushing photos"...stupid Maxim.

As for the hair thing.. I think its more airbrushing then shaving.. I doubt every single star in hollywood is hairless.

 

[McCarthy]

I sure wouldn't want to find pubic hair on the shelves at Wal-Mart, nor do I need or desire any to be pictured there. Usually I'm going there to buy food items or pet supplies (oops, time for the summer flea and tick treatment, thanks for reminding me) But hey, those are my preferences. Yours may be different. Unlike a certain politician who shared my family name I don't seek to have you blacklisted, jailed or deported for your opinion. Though perhaps because of that association I've given a bit of thought to the topic of censorship.

Never fails to amaze me when people start crying censorship because the world around them hasn't been formed exactly the way they want to see it. Editorial discretion and imposed censorship are two entirely different things. Those who fault Maxim for "censoring" are trying to impose a censorship of their own - by arguing that which they chose to print should not be printed, but rather a different image should be substituted.

Same holds for Wal-Mart. They chose not to carry a particular product. They exercised their freedom of expression in product selection. Again, editorial discretion. "But that's different, they're trying to control someone else's product" No, it's not different. Wal-Mart's choice is still independent of Maxim's choice, Wal-Mart does not have the authority or ability to prevent sales of Maxim from other vendors. Can they hurt Maxim's sales? Yes. But same goes for any product they don't stock. That's the free market at work. If customers don't agree they too can choose to shop elsewhere. There's no controlling authority at work here.

Unlike say if someone got upset about Wal-Mart pulling Maxim and tried to force them to restock it. Then you're undercutting their discretion and imposing your own views on them - which is a form of censorship. Harder to see in that way, but just as real.

So, if you don't like it, don't shop there. Exercise your freedom of monetary selection. Anyway, with free subscriptions in Hot Deals who around here is paying retail price for magazines?

 

[Salvador]

What do you, take polls at every store you go into? That is such an idiotic post.

I've seen it and it's scary. I went to school downstate Illinois and whenever I'd go in a Wal-Mart, especially during odd hours, I'd see some people from the surrounding farming communities and I swear that these people looked like they were doing some inbreeding.

Sal

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: aves2k
Oh and the lack of nipples still wasn't enough to keep them on the shelves at Wal-Mart.

Pretty stupid if you ask me but then again, I don't run Wal-Mart.

stupid walmart people are stuck in the 50's.

Hell, it must be working for them. That company has more money than god.

 

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by: HotChic

Originally posted by: Dr Smooth

Originally posted by: Salvador
I was just looking through my free subscriptions the other day thanks to the hot deals forums and noticed that though the girls are in super provacative poses and the magazines use all kinds of sexual inuendo's, the girls don't have visible nipples. It looks like they are photoshopped out. Come on!! It's not like I haven't seen a nipple before. What is it with the American sensorship?

Sal

They do not have pubic hair either. Talk about a time warp back to the 1950's. When showin women's nipples or anyone's pubic hair was bad.

They don't have pubic hair because they shave it all off, since the cultural trend is that women should be more hairless than a prepubescent child!

Well it's one thing to be completely hairless, but some "maintenance" should be mandated. Giving Buckwheat a tongue bath != good times.

 

[zsouthboy]

Exactly what the fvck is so offensive about nipples?

Can ANYONE tell me?

Everyone feels that they are satan, yet no one seems to know why...

 

[Muck]

Originally posted by: HotChic
They don't have pubic hair because they shave it all off, since the cultural trend is that women should be more hairless than a prepubescent child!

.....and we thank them for it. "Shaved" rocks.

 

[Muck]

I don't like the airbrushing. It's ridiculous. The cutting down of Beyonce's booty was the last straw. I didn't renew my subscription.

 

[kmac1914]

Originally posted by: Muck
I don't like the airbrushing. It's ridiculous. The cutting down of Beyonce's booty was the last straw. I didn't renew my subscription.

ummmm...I don't think Maxim had anything to do with that one...

 

[The_Dude8]

how come us subs dont have the top 100 maxim girls mag?

 

[crazygal]

I agree about the inbreeders at Walmart (or people who closely resemble them). The people who shop there are scary.