Yeah, This Makes Total Sense

Last month, Hudson News, "which operates more than 500 newsstands in major cities, airports and train stations—including New York's Grand Central Terminal," announced it would be treating the GQ cover featuring Sacha Baron Cohen as Brüno like porn, "covering up the bottom half of the July cover" in its displays. And so it has:

Of course, as Gawker discovered, this has made for some "interesting juxtapositions."

In this picture taken near Grand Central Station is an as-the-good-lord-made-her Bar Refaeli on the cover of Esquire. At right is dirty, dirty pornography.
Because, duh, women's bodies are meant to be objectified and ogled, but doing the same to men's bodies is pervy and grody!

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