Planet Muscle

Hello -- I just read the question in your Nov-Dec issue of PM, on page 41. Part of your answer was, "I assume we will de-butt as we grow.” Jeff, please don’t let this happen to your magazine. It is one of the things that puts Planet M apart. The others are all the same old, same-old, people, workouts, and ads. You also use lot of humor with these pictures, a lot of the time, so it does not really have a sexual orientation. The others, I can pick up any of the magazines and all the workouts are basically the same. The difference with PM is that you are real. Your articles, stories, and answers to questions are what make you different. Most of the other mags have let the fitness girls become such a small part of the magazine that they are hardly even there. I don't understand this. Fit women are one (or most) of the biggest motivators men have to be fit themselves. As far as going into Wal-Mart; I know they sell Maxim, FHM and stuff, and several other magazines, so I don't see any major difference.

Thanks for listening.

Does Wal-Mart sell Hustler yet? (I think they just excommunicated Maxim). Well, I agree with you of course, and many muscle magazines had to “de-butt” because it was presented in a purely sexual, lewd way. You see though, as one person complains, there may be 10 who may like what they see and don’t send letters. Usually complainers send letters everywhere, by 10 to one! The argument is that the magazines may be purchased by a parent, for someone under 18, under the rubric of “learning bodybuilding” and they do not expect to see anything considered pseudo-sexual. Of course, back home, as little Johnny pumps up his arms to his 15 inches he may be getting other parts congested, by watching every variant of sex known to mankind, on his computer.

Remember, Adam and Eve started out naked in the Garden, natural, as the Creator intended, but imagine if we showed a guy in a thong! It isn’t any retailer’s fault. Most do not see the body as muscular machines, where the gluteus maximus is the strongest muscle in the body. We do. Retail stores and people should be more concerned with all the known steroid users on covers and in the inside, as aren’t these drugs against the law? Women in bikinis are not. In fact, if you wanted to worship in a thong, God will accept your prayers. Gluteals are naturally, God-given. I know I am a doomed, but when you gander upon the globular globes of glory of Samantha Spangrud and Ava Cowan, don’t you see something altogether spiritual, in such wondrous, athletic rotundity?