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Is the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue with Marisa Miller Still Relevant Today?

The new Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition is available, this time with its cover being graced by none other than Marisa Miller,

Marisa has been in every issue of the SI Swimsuit Issue since 2002, but this is her first cover. You may have also seen her in the Andrew Marc and Michael Stars advertising campaigns. But in this day and age how relevant is the SI Swimsuit edition to begin with; magazines as diverse as Maxim and FHM and even specialty mags dealing with interests as diverse as Tattoos and Automobile Culture have racy pictures of women on them with every issue. In fact it is difficult to find a men's magazine that doesn't have a picture of a young girl on its cover.

Historically, the SI Swimsuit edition does try to portray women in some context, similar to the way that women are seen during the Victoria Secret's Fashion Show on CBS every year. It isn't a tasteless publication, and due to the rarity of it's schedule, is a bit unique. It would be the same as if a publication like Men's Health or GQ waited once a year to do the same, then again Esquire does have their "Women We Love" feature/pictorial. So how best to really put into perspective the service that SI offers us, once a year?

How about the distinction between ogling and going ga ga over women always, all of the time, for no particular reason, as opposed to having some taste and discretion about it. Think about it; SI, Esquire, GQ and other refined men's magazines offer us a beautiful, sexy woman every now and then, and at that typically just one woman. Those other magazines offer us women every single issue, plenty of them, but then still those women belong to a distinct minority because they have other things to do than merely model for magazines as a career. Then yet still you have the bottom of the bunch; hordes of nameless men's magazines that are rather forgettable and offer little, if anything, in the way of literature and feature an endless series of pictures of women.

This is about as close to true adult material as you can get; where they do not even interview the women anymore (or if they do it's like, 3 to 5 questions, max) there are no raucous jokes, nothing. If anyones noticed, magazines like Maxim proclaim to be controversial but when you really read them, (yes they can be read) they aren't half bad. There's a fine line between reading, or viewing, those magazines and ordering the DVDs that are often sold in the back pages. Do you want Britney Spears, Beyonce, Amerie, Rhianna or Halle Berry, just enough to remind you exactly why you like but not too much to where you've lost all respect, or do you wany anonymous, nameless women that are only known by you and the rest of the readership but are hard pressed to become household names?

The real issue, is that too many of us have the SI Swimsuit issue on the coffee table, in fact the misses was the one that encouraged us to get it (no really); men who don't even subscribe to the magazine will definitely buy that one at the newsstands, while the rest of us are flipping through Maxim at the local bookstore. What's worse yet is when a writer is reading their editorial guidelines and trying to figure a way that fit that one into his career (I understand the money isn't half bad) without everyone else knowing about it. So at the end of the day, are you that guy with a true, genuine appreciation for women with timeless beauty that doesn't mind a racy picture every now and then are you trying to find excuses to read those magazines that do everything possible short of exploiting them because you either do not want to spend the money or undertake the shame of looking at the stuff that you really do want (which despite trends, will never really ever be socially acceptable in America)? Ideally, we'd all be above the fray and wouldn't have to be either, but given a choice, the former seems preferable, the SI Swimsuit issue will never go out of style ...