Nekkid women in National Geographic?

Factual Questions
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<off topic>
An accquaintance once had a job as a ‘soft’ telemarketer - fundraising and renewing magazine subscriptions and the like.

He spent a month or so calling for NG, and the three main reasons for not re-subscribing were:

  1. Subscriber was dead.
  2. They’re too much into science (not enough creationism) and environmentalism. :rolleyes:
  3. I’ve run out of shelf space to store all my back issues.

<We now return you to your regularly scheduled GD thread>

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Interesting that comes up. I was just reading a “From The Editor” column in an issue with an article that deals with how life might have formed on Earth. A couple quotes:

“Whenever we feature an article concerning scientific evidence of evolution, I can be certain of two things: The story will represent the latest physical evidence presented by leading scientists in the study of early life – and my office will be deluged with letters from readers who reject evolutionary theory.”

“Scientists have no more business questioning the existence of God than theologians had telling Galileo the Earth was at the center of the universe.”

– From editor Bill Allen

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I work with South Africans and have heard the view expressed a few times that people think it is blantant racism to only show darker skinned nekkid women in NG. I’d have to agree. NG might be better these days (didn’t they cover ‘Burning Man’ and all those nekkid white girls dancing?). But not showing whiter skinned types in any form of undress for 60 years (until that 60’s photo) plus does seem to me to be a bit, um, biased?

-Tcat

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I remember watching National Geographic on public television and being fasinated by the nekkid men and their very exposed peni. So at least on the show, they do feature naked men.

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Thanks, jb_farley…when it comes to being a nerdy perv, humor is the best defense.

Tars Tarkas: Ha! In addition my own 22-year-spanning collection, while I was in my formative years, I also had regular access to my Grandfather’s NG collection, which dates back to 1914…back when the naked boobie pictures were from colonies, not “developing nations.”

Revtim: Shoot! I should have checked in earlier, before you got all slashdotted/farked…guess I’ll just have to unpack my collection and unstick those pages…

Now to come to grips with this suprising newly discovered arena of personal expertise…

–caveman, who dwells at the crossroads of Geography and Perversion

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hmm…GQ page did’t show my post…odd…

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Caveman, I can email you the pics if you want, together they are about 1.66 meg. Just give me your address.