Sex And The Stick

I guess the latest issue of New York magazine is causing a stir in some circles. I probably wouldn't have thought twice about the photo because I am so used to seeing images like that.

Both Feministing and Gawker have noticed that the cover of New York magazine's annual "Sex" issue features a tangle of the limbs and lips belonging to dozens of lily-white people.

I'll second that and jump in with my own observation: that what New York terms, in its headline, "The State of Play" is pretty undernourished, small-chested, and totally shorn. None of these people seem to have an ounce of fat on them. Nor, despite their supposedly amorous embraces, does it look like they have ever perspired. In their whole lives. And apparently, women who are sexy do not have any hair on their bodies except for the stuff on their heads. They also have boyish bodies and vacant stares.

A friend's husband once made the remark that men who prefer stick thin women with no curves or shape were really lusting after adolescent boys. I'd never thought of it like that before but it makes me think about that everytime I see someone oogling some waif or, from an ethnic standpoint, some of these very petite and juvenile looking Asian women. I really have to check myself sometimes because, particularly here in California, there seem to be many white men who consider themselves "Asiaphiles." When I see such couples I almost automatically think "pedophile" and am sure I grimace in some way. It feels rather awful to admit that but, particularly when the men are grossly unattractive or much older, I just get icked out and think the worst.