Word: hustler
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...says to you, 'You're beautiful, you should be in Playboy or Cosmopolitan or Vogue,' that's a compliment, isn't it? Whereas, 'You should be in Hustler,' that's degrading. Isn't that right, girls?" Chan asked. I knew that the right thing to say would be: 'Oh, yes! I can't wait to be in Playboy!" But I couldn't get over the feeling of playing a part, so I punted with "I guess that's part...
That was our conviction when we went in. But it wasn't easy to remember it. It was a nice room, and he was a nice enough guy. So there were a lot of pictures of naked girls lying around--so what? They were nice pictures, not like Hustler. It began to seem perfectly normal to sit and discuss topless, bottomless, nude and semi-nude, and completely natural to pose hips out, bust forward, lean a little, smile, a little more bust, turn your head...normal, natural, socially acceptable...
Chan has been doing his job fairly and well for almost twenty years. He doesn't call it art. He compares his work to other glossy magazines like Cosmo or Glamour. And he's right--they're not so different. But how far is it from Hustler, either? David Chan's job is to see women as the sum of their body parts...
Whether or not any such scale exists, any point along its line participates to some degree in the dehumanization of women--and sometimes of men--which is so obvious in Screw or Hustler. It's not a question of "having a sense of humor" about America's favorite sporting magazine. It's a question of facing what it is that's objectionable...
...both more and less each year: more pages of "tasteful pictures" and less swimsuit. Though it may not be the issue here, Sports Illustrated's loyal subscribers are as much to blame as are the magazine's editors for the fact that the magazine's little touch of Hustler has continued for 23 years. Readers write in to say that the swimsuit issue brings them warmth in the midst of winter. More likely, it saves them a trip out to the drugstore...