How? Answer that and 'll let it go.

[Jeff-Tex]

I'm no rocket scientist, but she is very pretty and bent over. I don't think its offensive because she is fully clothed.

 

[MadMo44Mag]

Just more PC - BS!

 

[kingofwylietx]

The last 3 sentences of the article sum it up nicely.....I think this particular article is saying to get over it. I looked at the picture, and didn't think anything sexual about it until I started reading this thread.

Tom Brady's a great athlete and a handsome dude and I don't hear people whine when he's shirtless in GQ.
Most importantly, this cover is almost identical to the one that ran on SI's Winter Olympic preview in 1992. That one featured a gentleman named A.J. Kitt and I'm pretty sure nobody complained that it was too provocative.

 

[robocop10mm]

The people that gripe about such things are the real pervs here. If you WANT to see it as "provocative" it is. If you want to see it as an Olympic athlete, posing to mimic her performing her skill and happens to be an attractive woman, that is what you see. The PC Douche Bags see something offensive or provocative EVERYWHERE!!!! If you are a normal, properly adjusted human being, it is just a picture of a pretty athlete.

Yes, sex sells. They would not put the female Olympic power lifter on the cover. There is no market for ugly. Why does Katarina Witt still have a career? She won and is hot! Ugly winners go nowhere. Beautiful losers fade quickly. Gorgeous + gold medal = Cha Ching!

 

[Outbreak]

I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I wish it was more provocative. Some of those camera angles Big Country was talking about.

The fact is if she was standing, they'd probably complain about the skin-tight skiing outfit (whatever it's called) highlighting her breasts or something. There's no pleasing these people.

 

[Hondo]

All this PC crap is retar.......oops can't say that either

 

[Texas1911]

Sure, that pose could be used for sexual reasoning. It could also be used for Yoga, taking a dump, giving birth, stretching, etc.

There's alot more things in life that are more of a concern. Evidently the people that are whining need to look beyond the cover of a private magazine.

They didn't complain when they have male swimmers in a speedo on the front cover.

 

[SapperMapper]

I think women on skis are sexy in any position, and I'm not ashamed of that. Better lock me up and pass a law banning skis.

 

[TxPhantom]

Being a flat lander Texas boy, if I ran up on a woman bending over on a 45 degree mountain slope I would find it anything but sexy, in fact, I would find it terrifying!
It would be much sexier at sea level, on a beach and her in a string bikini, now that's what I'm talking about!!!

 

[hkusp1]

provocative: serving to provoke, excite, or stimulate. Okay I guess it is "provocative" I see what shorts and TI were talking about know. I'm running in slow mode this morning! LOL

it provokes, excites, and stimulates me... but then again i have a thing for plaid ski suits lol!!!

 

[Greg_TX]

I think it would be provocative only to someone that's been looking at too much porn ...

 

[TxPhantom]

I think it would be provocative only to someone that's been looking at too much porn ...

OOOPS!!! Does that apply to my beach senario too?

 

[Greg_TX]

OOOPS!!! Does that apply to my beach senario too?

I think I'd have to make an exception in that case - more study will be required.

 

[Fight Crime : Shoot Back]

It's not a big deal: It's normal, it's Sports Illustrated-not Hustler. It's the puritans who are few, making much-a-doo-about nothing. If it were a man in the same position-similar style of photo, would he be gay and the church calling for a boycott of the magazine?? I think not, but because it woman (PC people) default thinking links a perfectly innocent appropriate pose is some how sexual. Now the easy question is, why are they (PC people) thinking sexual thoughts where the rest of us are not? Who's the one with the problem ?? Us or them?

- Stay Safe

 

[zembonez]

WOW.

It was obviously placed on that cover to "tweak" those who saw it but it is not anything out of line in today's world IMO.

 

[M. Sage]

Umm, you're not going to hold that particular pose for long without ski boots and skis on.

 

[zembonez]

Umm, you're not going to hold that particular pose for long without ski boots and skis on.

Good point.

What's next? Complaints about the name on her boots?

 

[Big country]

it provokes, excites, and stimulates me... but then again i have a thing for plaid ski suits lol!!!

I think I'm developing a thing for plaid ski suits!

 

[M. Sage]

Seriously, as a former skier and current perv, I don't see anything "provocative" or sexual about that pic...

 

[TxPhantom]

Seriously, as a former skier and current perv, I don't see anything "provocative" or sexual about that pic...

As a former stud muffin and current geezer perv, I find your post funny as hell!!!