I was at the grocery store a few nights ago, with my wife, picking up some necessities: milk, eggs, lunch meat. When we got up to the check stand I remembered the SI Swimsuit issue comes out mid-February so I ran over to the magazine rack to see if they had it. They did and I got one and took it up to where my wife was getting checked out. What happened next left both my wife and I speechless.

I put the magazine on the belt and the checker says "Ah, Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue", to which I reply, "yup, it's the only issue of Sports Illustrated I ever buy", to which she says "when my husband and son get theirs, I throw them in the trash."

I was dumbstruck and so was my wife. We finished paying for our groceries and headed out to the car. When we got outside my wife says to me "Can you believe that? I wanted to say 'well aren't you a prude'. How can you not like the SI swimsuit issue?" BTW: That's why I love my wife. We talked about how much we like the SI swimsuit issue and about the checker's comments the rest of the way home.

On a side note, most grocery stores here in Utah have cardboard or plastic covers over the "sexy" magazines like Cosmopolitan. I always take a magazine out and put it in front of the cover while I'm waiting in line.

It just amazes me that some people are so threatened by a beautiful woman's body or the words "Sex" or "Orgasm" that they have to cover them up. And if you're going to use the "but a little kid might see it" argument, that just doesn't fly with me. Kids are very good at overlooking words they don't understand, and heaven forbid a child should ask their parent "What does orgasm mean?"

... as in when a attractive female from America finds herself alone in the midst of a crowd of religious celebrators they find it so overwhelmingly tempting that the woman is raped with 200 (200!!!!) participants and onlookers.

Yes, keep those women covered up in front of the religious.

Those bikinis always fit so well on those women, they almost look like their painted on!!

One of my teachers, (at the UofU of all places), urged us hormone OD'd college dudes not to buy it, not because of the near-nekked ladies, but because of all the cigarette and alcohol ads. Lesson learned: The bikini pictures are OK, the ads aren't.

Mmmmmmmm....body paint. Did you see the body paint section of the issue? Wow.

I boldly walked up to the magazine, took it off the shelf at Borders, and flipped through it for a few minutes unashamed and without looking over my shoulder, and it felt great.

Kudos to your wife, too, for being cool. It bothers me when women are so insecure they don't want their men to look at pictures of other women. It also bothers me when some women roll their eyes at how men go Gaga over hot bodies, but are completely unaware of their own genetic inclinations to be attracted to men with status and money. Fact.

I did, and did you see how long it took to do the paint?

Kate Upton's took from 9:03am to 2:19am, which is over 17 HOURS!

Alyssa Miller's took from 9:15am to 10:02pm, which is almost 13 HOURS!

Shanna Click's took from 9:24am to 1:24am, which is 16 HOURS!

Izabel Goulart's took from 9:42am to 2:58am, which is over 17 HOURS!

Kenza Fourati's took from 9:16am to 6:15am, which is almost 21 HOURS!

That is absolutely amazing. They look so real. Absolutely fabulous work.

The models, photographers, and production staff are sure dedicated to their art and it shows.

Is not that she hates the magazine, because well maybe she's like real insecure when she sees all them perfect-lookin ladies(my mom can be sometimes), but the fact that she would be so creepy as to throw away something that belongs to someone else. It's nasty and disrespectin' to do that regardless of what ya think.

My wife and I review the issue together every year. In fact, she saves all past issues of the swimsuit issue.

BYU bans it each year.

What is wrong with being grateful for God's wonderous work???

I'm sick of self-righteous moronic mormon prudes.

I'm pretty sure God looks down from yonder heavens and can see billions of boobies bouncing up and down daily. Does that make him a sinner?

yep, my 13 year old got his yesterday.....He was pretty excited. He has a subscription by the way. I told him he should share it with his single Uncle who is unemployed and can't afford to buy it.

I did give him a hard time about it.....lol

I'm mostly surprised she was so unprofessional. You shouldn't have to feel judged by the person ringing up your purchase, at any type of store. That sort of behavior contributes to dumb teens not using condoms because they're too embarrassed to face the cashier at the store.

I was on the college paper at Ricks. We subscribed to lots of magazines and Sports Illustrated was among them. The office manager would take the swimsuit edition and shred it... Page...by... Page. Yeah, she was totally into it. ;)

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/supermodels-without-photoshop-1108305

But they're closer than most of us!

They don't look happy do they? I couldn't stand being a supermodel, too much pressure to be, well, perfect.



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I don't know why, but I was comparing their belly buttons, lol.

I'm not a big fan of sports illustrated swimsuit edition because the women are so airbrushed and skinny.

BUT what a weird cashier. Reminds me of ..... my mother.

If my manager caught me making such a comment, I would be reprimanded at least, suspended or fired most likely. We are specifically told not to comment on anything anyone buys of a sensitive nature. Not the worried-looking girls in cheerleader uniforms buying a discount pregnancy test. Nor the obviously gay men buying condoms, lube, and peanut butter. Nor the sour-looking old man buying enema solution and stool softener. In other words, if it's OK for our store to sell it, it isn't open to comment, unless you are remarking on how good the food is. "I've tried those frozen pizzas, and they're great!" End of story. She should have kept her big mouth SHUT.

I'm glad to hear your store has that policy... it's the way it should be! When my sister was 18, she went to the grocery store two times in one night to buy a pregnancy test and got the same cashier both times. The second time, the cashier said, "Didn't get the result you wanted the first time, huh?" I am not making that up. She was mortified enough about her unplanned pregnancy without having that stupid cashier say that to her.

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Many years ago, at the Lord's junior College (Ricks College), a young, naive Mormon girl took all of the swimsuit issues that arrived at Ensign Hall and tore out the pictures of Paulina Porizkova, Kathy Ireland, et. al. because they were not modest.

One of the young men, who received his issue void of the lovely 80's models, turned her into the postal inspectors.

Ignorance does breed stupidity.

My nephew and his wife (young couple, 2 small kids) won a trip to Hawaii. This is something they could not afford to do and they are thrilled beyond belief. A woman in their ward told them they not to go near the beach because the majority of women were so immodestly dressed. She said it caused a lot of strife between her and her husband on their trip and she vowed never to go back.
My nephew is now so excited to go he can't sleep. His wife thinks it's funny and is planning to surprise him with an immodest swimsuit of her own.

I hope that your nephew and his wife have a great time! That would be a dream trip for me.

The SI swimsuit issue is sooooo harmless. Nothing that you wouldn't see on a beach somewhere in the world.

Prudishness does not equal moral virtue.

It just makes reason stare how much you have gotten into such vile stuff.

Now if you will excuse me, I have some Old Testament reading to get to. I'm reading about Lot and his daughters tonight.

Now where is that Vaseline Jar.

On second thought, you should ask someone who knows.

hahaha

I couldn't help myself. ;)

So the question remains what would Joseph Smith do were there a SI Swimsuit edition in his day?

Why? He'd probably try to cut a deal with the Daddies of all these women - "force your daughters to marry me and ... er ... um ... oh yes - your families will be exalted for evermore".

Should the women have said no, he would have told them an angel of the lord would smite him if they didn't let him have his wicked way with them.

Thank G-d women aren't as gullible or primitive these days.

I always take the plastic covers over the supposedly immodest magazines and place them over the national inquirer. That shit's the worst to read.

Holy fucking shit! A cashier said that? What a judgmental ninny.

I'd love to go to that store and buy the SI issue just to see if she made a comment, than ask to see the manager.

Fuck that. You don't have to put up with abuse from anybody.

On the other hand, she sounds miserable. I tend to steer clear of people like that. There's not a whole lot I can do to make them feel any worse. You pick your battles, right?

it didn't bother me at all. I figure it's her problem, not mine.

I used to drive across town to buy a Playboy so the chances of running into someone I knew would be slim.

Now I don't really give a shot what anyone thinks. If I want to purchase something I go get it. I have a SI calendar in my (home) office. A few people have commented from time to time and I tell them if they don't like it they can wait in the family room. It's not MY problem, it's theirs.

The only person who's opinion I care about is my wife's and then only to a certain extent. She doesn't care if I get the SI swimsuit issue or Playboy or anything else. She reads them too (and looks at the pictures). We often talk about the beautiful women we see.

It's so liberating to be free of TSCC.

..where I work, the issue would end up mutilated, without a doubt, every year. (This is in Ut County) To keep the pictures from being ripped out of the issue I would purposefully stamp over or put a sticker on each model, to deter the theft/mutilation.
Doing this helped curb the theft/mutilation of that issue.

I'm grateful for internet porn. We rarely have problems with that issue or its pages being taken anymore. lol

I remember getting this lesson in Sunday school. And now that I look back I laugh. There were these magazines, very likely the swimsuit issues, and there was this self righteous prude who turned them all to face away. He said they were pornographic. Haha! He wouldn't know pornographic if it slapped him in the face. Oh how sheltered these poor TBM's are.

It's more amazing that she seems to think that she has the right to chastise customers. No checker should make negative comments about the products customers buy. It's telling the customer not to shop there, or at least not to buy certain items that the store sells. If I worked at a store that sold cigarettes, I could tell them, "Those things will kill you!" That's just none of your business.

It's especially bizarre that she would chastise you in front of your wife. If it doesn't bother your wife, why should it bother her?