Letters

VISIONS (CONT.)
This year's swimsuit issue (Sugar and Spice and, Oh, So Nice, Feb. 9) knocked my socks off, as usual. The photography and location were beautiful, and the suits were stunning! Elle Macpherson , with her fun-loving smile, and Kathy Ireland , with her captivating eyes, were definitely two of the brightest sights to behold.
JOHN DAVIDSOKK
Newport, R.I.

The highlight of my week was when our 21-month-old daughter looked at the cover of your swimsuit issue, pointed and said, "Mommy."

What a perfect child—except, perhaps, for her eyesight!
ELIZABETH DOUAIRE
Glenview , Ill.

As my girlfriend proofreads this letter over my shoulder, we concur that your annual swimsuit issue is tasteless, sexist, degrading, immoral...(she just left the room)...artistic, invigorating, stylish, refreshing, sensuous.

What the heck, it's my subscription.
S.P. HILCOFF
West Haven , Conn.

My wife was ready to cancel our subscription until she saw the ad in your swimsuit issue showing Jim Palmer smiling happily in his swimwear. Perhaps SI should consider him for next year's feature. He is not an "undernourished fashion model," and he is a "pretty good athlete."
GEORGE EVANS
Baltimore

My husband and I have an agreement: He gets to play basketball twice a week, and I get to cut out the pictures in the swimsuit issue before he gets home.
LISA DAVIS
Eltopia, Wash.

No way am I going to provide those pictures for my two sons to see! Maybe they can see the same sort of pictures someplace else, but not in my living room.
MAVIS HANSON
Fargo , N. Dak.

As a red-blooded American male, I certainly appreciated the swimsuit issue. However, as an ex-jock with a daughter who is a college basketball player, I appreciated even more the issue in which you devoted several pages to covering women's collegiate basketball (Feb. 2).
JOHN R. KING
New Providence, N.J.

BOXING
Frank Deford should be complimented for taking a valiant stance on the controversial issue of boxing (POINT AFTER, Feb. 9). I remember Jesuit priests proclaiming 20 years ago in philosophy classes at the University of Scranton that the sport was immoral and unethical. At the time I wasn't ready to believe such an unpopular tenet. I later came to agree. Now, in the most widely read sports magazine in the country, the same conclusion is expressed. I hope the American public gets the message.
GERALD A. BEURKET
Binghamton , N.Y.