Adam Levine’s Super Bowl nipple reveal prompts backlash

[Fishking]

The reason is because the female breast has become sexualized based solely on the fact that our culture irrationally keeps them hidden. For most of human history women's breasts have not been hidden nor sexualized over and above any other body part, nor are they many other cultures today.

We don't cover female breasts because we view them differently than we view male breasts, we view female breasts differently than we view male breasts because we cover them.

Some cultures you can walk around with your dong out, but that doesn't mean it's not sexual. Sex is part of what makes us human, mammals even. It's not something that just comes from no where.

 

[uptower]

Well, if gender equality is to be maintained/established, male nipples need to receive the same regard as female ones.

I think we should go the other way and accord women's nipples the same as men's. Then I can see a lot more boobies. I like boobies.

Too soon?

 

[Hatuey]

Oh. Em. Gee!!!! You posting a picture of fit dudes without shirts on totally proves your point! Oh wait, it doesn't.

No, no, you don't get it, no matter how much you try to claim that there is no market for fit shirtless men with big chests in pornography, reality shows different. They aren't hiring people that looks like the average DP poster, guy.

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[Hatuey]

Let's be real....Would mainstream straight porn (I suspect there is porn for "chubby chasers" just as there is for other fetishes) be at all worth watching were the male performer not fit? Even as a guy whose porn watching focus is on the women in porn videos, there's no way I'd watch porn that has some obese dude (or God forfend, multiple ones) banging a hot chick.

Fishking is really arguing that there is no section of porn providing/catering endless pictures of fit shirtless men. Lol,

That's crazy.

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[Hatuey]

Let's be real....Would mainstream straight porn (I suspect there is porn for "chubby chasers" just as there is for other fetishes) be at all worth watching were the male performer not fit? Even as a guy whose porn watching focus is on the women in porn videos, there's no way I'd watch porn that has some obese dude (or God forfend, multiple ones) banging a hot chick.

Beverly Jenkins literally built an empire by selling romance novels with shirtless men on the cover.

Fishking wants to believe they don't exist.

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[Xelor]

I think we should go the other way and accord women's nipples the same as men's. Then I can see a lot more boobies. I like boobies.

Too soon?

I don't care which "way" the matter be resolved, so long as the same standard applies to women and men.

 

[Xelor]

Fishking is really arguing that there is no section of porn providing/catering endless pictures of fit shirtless men. Lol,

That's crazy.

Red:
Well, yes, that is an insipid stance to take, and it's even more inane to defend that stance.

 

[Hatuey]

Red:
Well, yes, that is an insipid stance to take, and it's even more inane to defend that stance.

His stance is: men's nipples aren't sexualized, therefore they're different. He of course ignores gay porn, or just most porn, where the guys is shirtless. Does he think all porn, even straight porn is done solely to look at a chick's tits?

Myopic and funny as ****.

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[lwf]

Some cultures you can walk around with your dong out, but that doesn't mean it's not sexual. Sex is part of what makes us human, mammals even. It's not something that just comes from no where.

Breasts (male and female) are part of sexual selection in the same way that legs and shoulders are, and we don't feel the need cover them. In fact, women don't even have to cover their entire breast in America, only their nipples, which makes even less sense. That western society puts a higher sexual value on female nipples than on male nipples or legs is due solely to the fact that they are normally hidden in that society.

 

[Fishking]

No, no, you don't get it, no matter how much you try to claim that there is no market for fit shirtless men with big chests in pornography, reality shows different. They aren't hiring people that looks like the average DP poster, guy.

Lol...obviously porn doesn't really involved shirts, buddy. Also it usually involves people being fit, though there are other fetishes. That doesn't prove the point you're desperately trying to make. Now how about you post a picture of a bare-chested woman and see what happens, eh?

 

[Fishking]

Breasts (male and female) are part of sexual selection in the same way that legs and shoulders are, and we don't feel the need cover them. In fact, women don't even have to cover their entire breast in America, only their nipples, which makes even less sense. That western society puts a higher sexual value on female nipples than on male nipples or legs is due solely to the fact that they are normally hidden in that society.

Sure, sure...and I'm sure a plethora of straight dudes totally enjoy such things. Covering or not covering doesn't change that.

 

[sangha]

From Associated Press

Adam Levine’s Super Bowl nipple reveal prompts backlash
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NEW YORK (AP) — First, critics panned Maroon 5′s Super Bowl halftime performance. Then social media folks went full-on snark over Adam Levine’s throw pillow-like tank top design. Then he peeled off the busy brown shirt and the snark turned to outrage over his exposed nipples.

The bare-chested moment Sunday had some feminists and Janet Jackson supporters focused on how male and female nipples are treated differently in life, especially on network TV and by the NFL years after Jackson’s career was derailed by a split-second halftime reveal.


“Double standard, much?” is how an InStyle headline neatly summed up the issue in the light of day Monday as the media noted how the hate quickly built online. Singer-songwriter Neko Case aptly captured the mood in an F-bomb-infused tweet likening the frontman to a half-nude greased pig.


Jackson’s 2004 wardrobe malfunction, thanks to Justin Timberlake’s tug on her bodice, earned CBS a $550,000 Federal Communications Commission fine that was later voided by an appeals court. Levine’s nipples enjoyed far more stage time.

COMMENT:-

Well, what with the crappy football game, they had to find SOMETHING "newsworthy" didn't they?

However, "The History of Men's Exposed Nipples in America" is definitely a subject worthy of several doctoral dissertations.

On the other hand, maybe the dissertations should be on "The Search For Something To Be Offended By".
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Adam Levine has a Super Bowl nipple?

What sports gives those out?

 

[lwf]

Sure, sure...and I'm sure a plethora of straight dudes totally enjoy such things. Covering or not covering doesn't change that.

Sure it does.

 

[Fishking]

Fishking is really arguing that there is no section of porn providing/catering endless pictures of fit shirtless men. Lol,

That's crazy.

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Beverly Jenkins literally built an empire by selling romance novels with shirtless men on the cover.

Fishking wants to believe they don't exist.

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Red:
Well, yes, that is an insipid stance to take, and it's even more inane to defend that stance.

No, that's not what I'm arguing, liar. Stop strawmaning the point being made. Maybe it's just the point is beyond you to comprehend. Your counterpoints have been specious beyond reason, claiming dudes without shirts in porn is proof of your point. Dude...it's porn. People are going to be ditching the clothes and people are generally going to prefer fit people.

You know what's different than being fit? Big boobs. They are completely separate from being in good physical shape. There is a reason why there is also a huge industry for breast augmentation, to the tune of billions a year, another industry based solely on the size of breasts. It's not a muscle or any other such thing that gives an advantage or indicates fitness. All these things exist because there is a difference between the two, a sexual one.

 

[Fishking]

Sure it does.

Red herring noted.

 

[Hatuey]

Lol...obviously porn doesn't really involved shirts, buddy. Also it usually involves people being fit, though there are other fetishes. That doesn't prove the point you're desperately trying to make. Now how about you post a picture of a bare-chested woman and see what happens, eh?

Lmao, so your argument is that there isn't a whole section of porn dedicated to male chests, because people on this forum get banned for posting women's breasts?

Is that your brilliant argument, bud?

I would be embarrassed if the counter argument to my statements was 'gay porn' and then I spent a bunch of posts arguing that gay porn isn't entirely based off the male physique - which includes chests.






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[ecofarm]

Lmao, so your argument is that there isn't a whole section of porn dedicated to male chests, because people on this forum get banned for posting women's breasts?

Is that your brilliant argument, bud?

I would be embarrassed if the counter argument to my statements was 'gay porn' and then I spent a bunch of posts arguing that gay porn isn't entirely based off the male physique - which includes chests.






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So that time a guy wanted a nipple pic, he wasn't joking? And I laughed in his face because I thought it was joke.

The things I learn here.

 

[Hatuey]

No, that's not what I'm arguing, liar. Stop strawmaning the point being made. Maybe it's just the point is beyond you to comprehend. Your counterpoints have been specious beyond reason, claiming dudes without shirts in porn is proof of your point. Dude...it's porn. People are going to be ditching the clothes and people are generally going to prefer fit people.

You know what's different than being fit? Big boobs. They are completely separate from being in good physical shape. There is a reason why there is also a huge industry for breast augmentation, to the tune of billions a year, another industry based solely on the size of breasts. It's not a muscle or any other such thing that gives an advantage or indicates fitness. All these things exist because there is a difference between the two, a sexual one.

Lmao, are you telling us there isn't a section of porn dedicated to shirtless fit men?

Are you... Are you serious? I've heard of sheltered, but even a Sunday school pastor knows different.

I would be embarrassed if I got caught giving such a naive opinion.

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[Hatuey]

So that time a guy wanted a nipple pic, he wasn't joking? And I laughed in his face because I thought it was joke.

The things I learn here.

Lol, it happens.

I'm not up on the latest numbers, but a review of PornHub's available analytics shows human beings are a freaky bunch. Find a person, there is probably a porn market for it somewhere. To say there is no pornographic market for physically fit shirtless straight white men is absolutely absurd.

Rule 34 isn't a meme, it's reality - and white guys were under it long before most people.

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[Fishking]

Lmao, are you telling us there isn't a section of porn dedicated to shirtless fit men?

Are you... Are you serious? I've heard of sheltered, but even a Sunday school pastor knows different.

I would be embarrassed if I got caught giving such a naive opinion.

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Nope...still not what I'm saying. Your inability to understand is astounding. But I actually don't think you don't understand. I actually just think you're a liar, tbh.

 

[Fishking]

Lmao, so your argument is that there isn't a whole section of porn dedicated to male chests, because people on this forum get banned for posting women's breasts?

Is that your brilliant argument, bud?

Nope...not my argument. You just merged to independent points together in a dishonest attempt at propping up your failing positions. Now post a picture of a bare chested woman.

 

[ecofarm]

I would be embarrassed if I got caught giving such a naive opinion.

Self awareness is a curse.

 

[lwf]

Red herring noted.

The point is to show that you're no different than those men, and ankles are no different than nipples. You are attracted to what is hidden from you. If women in the US all of a sudden stopped covering their nipples at the pool, there would be a few weeks of distress where people would cover their children's eyes, men would ogle, and women would slut shame, followed by everything returning back to normal and life going on. You know how I know this? Because it already happened once in this country.

1910's


1940's


It went from scandalous and improper to people no longer giving a hoot because we can all agree: IT WAS IRRATIONAL TO REQUIRE MEN TO COVER THEIR NIPPLES. This is no different than requiring women to cover theirs.

 

[Northern Light]

Why don't we just distill this down to what it's really about: prudes didn't want to be prompted to have sexy feelings by seeing a shirtless body.

Doesn't matter if it's a man or woman. People have this idea that the Superbowl is supposed to be a "family" event which means no sex.

Also, consider that if he had walked out shirtless that would've had a totally different impact than if he stripped mid-show. The timing was not accidental.

Adam Levine is a self-obsessed narcissist and the worst part of this is that he's getting publicity for it. You've seen one muscled, tattooed douchebag, you've seen them all. He takes his shirt off at every opportunity, he even did it on SNL.

There is an argument to be made about how the male body is favored over the female. Levine can disrobe at practically any public venue and we're all just supposed to eat it up. I'm no prude but to me the disrobing thing is just a cheap way to get attention through sexual gaze. He wants to be desired and I don't care to desire him.

Am I offended by male nipple though? Nope. The puritanical aspect of our culture really saddens me.

 

[Fishking]

The point is to show that you're no different than those men, and ankles are no different than nipples. You are attracted to what is hidden from you. If women in the US all of a sudden stopped covering their nipples at the pool, there would be a few weeks of distress where people would cover their children's eyes, men would ogle, and women would slut shame, followed by everything returning back to normal and life going on. You know how I know this? Because it already happened once in this country.

Wrong again. I still like them when they are uncovered and there is absolutely no shortage of supply for bare breast out there.