We've got a bone to pick with you, GQ/Esquire/Maxim/FHM/HotRod. Here you have Olivia Wilde, Maxim's Sexiest Woman Alive, you convince her to get naked and then ... this. She might as well be wearing a bikini for all the good stuff we can make out in these shots.
And this isn't the first time you've done us this way. It seems like every few months you're touting some smoking-hot cover girl as "nude!" in the pages of your rag, a perfect example of adhering to the letter of the law versus the spirit. Sure, this is technically a "nude" photograph, but if someone tells us we're about to see Olivia Wilde nude, well, this is not what we're picturing.
We know you want to sell magazines (hence a partially nude Olivia Wilde), but wouldn't you rather sell assloads of magazines (an actually nude Olivia Wilde)? No one's stopping you!
Playboy has fallen into chaos in the last two years, with plummeting stock prices, newsstand sales and a general feeling that anyone can get better nudity on the Internet for free. Esquire and others have the readership and the credibility to introduce some tasteful celebrity nudes, so what's stopping men's mags from picking up the slack?
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Friday 18 September
By Heavytoka
I totally agree! It's weird that in this country we can see all the blood and gore we want, but show a breast or even a butt and people freak out. What's weirder is that we have the largest porn industry out of every country in the world, yet still this is an issue. I guess people only like boobs when nobody is looking.
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Sunday 20 September
By Hammer
The reason there is a porn industry is _because_ of the societal prohibition against nudity. Look back to alcohol prohibition: speak easies boomed.
You are correct: it is much more acceptable to kill, maim, abuse, rape than it is to show nudity; tasteful or otherwise.
Sunday 20 September
By Kevin
God forbid we should see God's most beautiful creation... it's only obscene because obscenely UGLY women call it obscene.
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Monday 21 September
By dr. sausage
you are being so sarcastic calling this bag of bones the sexiest woman alive.i wouldn't cross the street for her.the reason you see nothing is these mags is they are owned/edited by munchers and patos.they get off taking your money and giving you nothing.
Tuesday 22 September
By cindy10016
Oh Kevin,
Obscenely ugly woman call it obscene?
God's most beautiful creation is women of all colours, sizes, shapes, and ages.
I am a photographer who appreciates the human body and every person who is in a shoot with me will be made to look and feel beautiful.
You disgrace women and men alike with such a crude comment.
Monday 21 September
By Whitesnake
I agree with Dr. Sausage, this bag of bones wouldn't be worth crossing the street for. Sure I'll look, but if she was any skinnyier you'd be able to see right through here.
There are MANY, MANY, MANY sexier women than this chick.
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Tuesday 22 September
By f0219397
For two hombres who may well have shared the soogans with a passable female shortly before the Napoleonic Wars -- Sympathy.
Monstrous female mammaries and bubble-butts have their place, but that photo is of one beautiful woman.
Jayne Mansfield was an awesome person, but she had too much anatomy for the average man's personal preference.
Leslie Caron can be found on classic movies constantly. Can't remember when the last time Jayne had air time. Her daughter, Marisa Hartigay would enamour any red blooded boy.
With all the pre-frontal exposure out there today, it is kind of nice to see a subdued nude pose done with true artistic taste.
Tuesday 22 September
By lamalanga
you are buying advertisements when you buy these mags.if you want the real stuff, go to a truck stop shop/gas statin.we want flesh, not some new york icicle bitch selling makeup or some flaggott latte flavor of the month at starblockheads.
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Tuesday 22 September
By pahrumppete
Back before PLAYBOY, every 4-year university had a campus humor magazine. Nudity was never permitted.
Not even with the surviving Harvard Lampoon.
But the co-ed "cheesecake" with high, tight short shorts, v-necked and boat necked sweaters, jerseys, etc. and the bathing suit pix were more compelling than what is offered above.
She is a beautiful woman, super-petite and no man of the appropriate age would even consider kicking her out of bed it it got that far with her enthusiastic participation.
But in this era of almost unlimited Internet full frontal, spread eagle nudity, that was a nice art illustration.
If they are expecting to compete with the routine, raunchier men's magazines -- Good Luck. They had better have awesome articles and fiction, or paydays may be few and far between.
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Tuesday 22 September
By SP
You say that Playboy is getting killed by the internet; why would other men's mags add nudity and expect to avoid Playboy's fate? Add full nudity to the mix and say goodbye to mainstream newsstand sales, advertisers, and most importantly, the girls. Starlets like Olivia Wilde appear in these mags BECAUSE they don't have to get nude to promote a project.
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Wednesday 23 September
By Denaya Banks
ITS NOT FAIR WE PAY 2 SEE BOOBIES AND WE CANT (O IM A CHICK.)
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Wednesday 30 September
By JJ
It's a very simple reason. If GQ showed more nudity, the stores would remove them from the shelves. The reason for this is that a small # of huge companies control almost all of our media. This means they control the tv shows, magazines and most importantly most all advertising. These companies make huge profits from pay-per-view porn and premium channels. They have no interest in giving away images in freer areas because it will cut into the very important high-profit areas. No business will ever do anything to cut into profit margins. Simple business rule. The competition coming from the internet is forcing them to change this, but they will change as slowly as possible. The faster people stop watching there programs the faster it will change.
This is all about business and these companies have been an anti-trust violation for years, but our govt. lets them get away with it. The internet will break this monopoly in the end, but it will take some time.
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Wednesday 30 September
By JJ
Let me also add that anyone says that nudity will cause them to lose business and the Olivia Wilde wouldn't pose nude is 100% wrong. The largest media outlets are the ones limiting nudity and no one else. Once these large businesses can't (or won't) prevent it anymore, these women will be nude all the time. History has shown that these women will make much more money by being nude. These women want that money and have absolutely no problems getting nude. This actually scares big media. The fact that a random hot 18 year girl can take viewers away from big media scares the hell out of them. When a famous chick gets naked the effect is that much bigger. That's why a hot reality chick can get so much for getting nude. The future of US media will be a complete merging of the 2 largest forms of media in this country: hollywood and porn. Every actress will be 1/2 hollywood actress and 1/2 porn starlet. Only question is how long will it take to get there. Within 10 years we will be very close.
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Wednesday 30 September
By JJ
The only reason that the censorship exists is because the mainstream media monopoly controlled by Fox, Disney, Time Warner, Viacom and GE controls the amount of nudity (mainly female nudity as that is the only real money maker.) On one hand these large businesses make huge profits from premium content (movie channels and esp. pay-per-view porn) and wall street values huge profit margins more than anything else.
On the other hand, these businesses are scared to death of naked women taking all their viewers away. Even more so, they are afraid of the amount of power a naked famous woman has. By controlling media distribution, these companies have been able to successfully limit it for years. Because of the internet, they will no longer be able to do so. It will not be very long before all of these famous women will be naked all the time. They will become 1/2 hollywood actress and 1/2 porn starlet.
The people who say Olivia Wilde would only pose 1/2 nude are completely wrong. They are simply repeating what these large media companies tell them. As soon as these women have a way to distribute their movies, show, pix, etc. without relying on the middlemen, these women will be naked all the time. The reason for this is because A) they have nothing against it and B) they will be far more popular and make a lot more money.
The trend in recent years has been these women getting more nude. This will only accelerate in coming years as the large media companies will ultimately lose any control they have to stop it.
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Thursday 01 October
By mark
Just like here! Do you see any nudity on this site, or ever on AOL? Nope! If it can't be shown, why bother talking about it. Go to the porn sites instead.
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