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So, pandering to the lgbtq whatever community instead of actually reporting on sports isn't profitable for a sports magazine. Who knew?

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If the swimsuit issue was still about "women" in Swimsuits - I'd care.... But I don't

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I actually stopped subscibing about 20 years ago. And yeah, the swimsuit issue, which was at one time ahead of the curve, degenerated into little more than a woke pornfest.

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My favorite monthly issue of SI growing up was the one a month after the swimsuit issue when all the moms wrote in complaining that they would never have given a gift subscription to their son for Christmas if they knew it was a porn magazine 😂🤣.

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Yep, and that's the way it was from the first one in 1964! My mom wanted to cancel the subscription but it was in Dad's name and he said no.

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As far as I know my mom never thought that and gave each us a subscription when we went off to college, even me, her only daughter.

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Mom was (and still is), very religious and she didn't think that a 7 year old boy needed to be looking at that sort of thing. She's not extreme but she's always been a firm believer in age appropriate ways.

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I think my dad would have been the one more offended, but I never heard him say anything either.

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Dad, on the other hand, was a member of the Polar Bear Club. The real one, where you went skinny dipping in the creek in January. He and his best friend also "borrowed" a local farmer's horse and snuck it into the high school gym along with a bale of hay and bucket of water. The night before graduation.

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That’s awesome!!😎

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I can’t say that I am surprised. I saw it coming a mile away!

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Did they already shoot the swimsuit issue? 🤣

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I don’t think they’re going AI, I think they are just going away.

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I'd say if SI had any credibility - and I have no idea because I don't read it - they just lost it to the fantasy writers.

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