Life before breast implants: What naked girls used to look like
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In my house, my
hippie mother felt that it was more natural for me to see movies with
naked people making
love
(that's the term 8 out of 10 hippie mothers preferred) than movies
where people were trying to kill each other. As it was, I was totally
accustomed to seeing breasts on our early '80s cable channels, nipples
of various sizes bouncing around across our 19-inch screen, and I knew
that men liked to look at
boobs
and hips and butts and the dark thickets in a girl's "area" but it
wasn't until we had a rummage sale one summer afternoon and her live-in
boyfriend Larry pulled out a moldering box of vintage
Playboys that I really understood. It wasn't just looking at naked boobs on the
television.
It was somehow more private than that. Sure, this naked girl might have
been replicated in 500,000 copies, but somehow, at that moment, it was
just her and the viewer. These pages, slick as beetle skins, the eyes
wearing impossible amounts of mascara, looking up at the viewer,
imploring somehow, begging to be looked at. That's when I really got a
sense of how powerful a girl's body could be when displayed on the
glossy pages of a magazine.
Erin over at
Product Fiend recently talked about
Sports Illustrated's cover vault,
specifically the vintage Swimsuit Edition covers. I've never really
seen the point of the Swimsuit Edition, even though I know that it
makes people drool like crazy. I mean, there's nothing SPORTY about
staring at women in swimsuits, and if you want to see the
bush, there are magazines dedicated to that purpose. And at least the Victoria's Secret catalog was
free. So I took another look and...wow.
If
you want to have your eyes opened on the changing dimensions of the
average
SI Swimsuit Edition cover model, simply compare 2008's
Marissa Miller to 1971's
Tannia Rubiano or 1967's
Lynn Tyndall. Seriously, you need to click on those links. I don't know about you but I miss seeing covers that
celebrate women with amazing breasts like
these. I need to be reminded that at one time, girls with big boobs had hips to match (image
NSFW) and it was all good. Perspective, is what I think I'm getting here. And I have stupid
Sports Illustrated to thank for it, except I'll probably never admit that anywhere else.
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