Group Wants 'Pornographic' SI Swimsuit Issue Banned

"Exposed pubic area" is not a phrase you hear often

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (previously known as Morality In Media) is asking retailers to not display the new Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue. In a letter to Walmart, CVS, 7-Eleven and Costco, the group who doesn’t enjoy fun said that the cover was a “pornographic pose” and it “normalizes genital display.”

Sports Illustrated’s 2015 Swimsuit issue’s cover does not simply feature a beautiful woman in a bikini, it borders obscenity as the focus is specifically on the exposed pubic area,” Dawn Hawkins, executive director of the NCSE, told The New York Post.

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