The other side of the Photoshop touch-up
Cats: beauty|Of course, the stick insects are altered, painted and brushed by the Photoshop editors. But this particular stick insect lost a navel when Playboy Photoshoppers were altering her curves. (Perhaps angles and bones would be a better choice of words.)
One can only wonder how such a mistake was not noticed but it wasn’t, and the magazine went out with the babe in all her navel-removed glory.
Over 650,000 copies were sold that month much to the consternation of many buyers who were annoyed by the blatant faking of the scantily clad bodies.
The lack of a navel is creepy enough, but even more bewildering is the idea that men really do find the skin-pulled-over-protruding-bone starvation chic look sexually appealing? If this is true, men, please explain.
June 27th, 2007 at 7:05 am
I think men in general appreciate a much wider range in body types. The stick insect probably represents one end of the scale for most men. Young and slim represents a period in most of our history which was paired with raging hormones and romance. Men enjoy it because it brings them into a more youthful state of mind.
Alternately, the stick insect may represent such an anomally in the population that men have never been with one sexually, and are interested from that perspective.
As I have insinuated before, the birth rate wouldn’t nose dive if all these women put on 10 or 20 kilos and stopped shaving.
Playboy has a problem though, because the men who buy it have just had their illusion shattered. Welcome to reality boys!
June 28th, 2007 at 3:02 am
So it’s either the mid-life crisis hypothesis or the mutant hypothesis. Curious, very curious indeed.
July 3rd, 2007 at 1:19 pm
well, i would like to say something on behalf of all the men out there. Most of us do find skinny women attractive, however, not everyone does. As well, concerning the playboy issue, it doesnt really matter if shes real or not, considering some people can be attracted to cartoon charactors. Sorry if my spelling is bad, i typed this out quickly,
A males perspective