Ok, guys. Don’t flame me, but sometimes the images are a little…well, adult oriented. I read this forum at work and at home. If you want to put up a woman, can’t it be someone who actaully looks like they workout? I’m trying to get my wife into this site, but the first time I showed her, there was a big semi-porn picture of a girl with her boobs falling out. I had to explain to her that this is not a porno site.
To me, I’d prefer more muscle in the Powerful Image. To me, there’s nothing particularly “powerful” about a woman with no muscle in lingere. Please don’t flame, but it has caused a few uncomfortable situations when people walk by or look over my shoulder (at home and work).
Yes, I realize I can turn it off. That’s not the point. This is a bidybuilding/strength/fitness website. Why not use pictures that exemplify this? Using soft-porn is gratuitous and cheapens the intent of the site.
I guess the guys who come here and never visit the lifting forums like the pics. It’s not a big deal, just an idea.
If I tell a friend about T-Nation and they visit, they might get the wrong impression (especially with the girl in the blue plastic outfit bending over).
[quote]PGJ wrote:
Yes, I realize I can turn it off. That’s not the point. This is a bidybuilding/strength/fitness website. Why not use pictures that exemplify this? Using soft-porn is gratuitous and cheapens the intent of the site.
I guess the guys who come here and never visit the lifting forums like the pics. It’s not a big deal, just an idea.
If I tell a friend about T-Nation and they visit, they might get the wrong impression (especially with the girl in the blue plastic outfit bending over). [/quote]
[quote]PGJ wrote:
Yes, I realize I can turn it off. That’s not the point. This is a bidybuilding/strength/fitness website. Why not use pictures that exemplify this? Using soft-porn is gratuitous and cheapens the intent of the site.
I guess the guys who come here and never visit the lifting forums like the pics. It’s not a big deal, just an idea.
If I tell a friend about T-Nation and they visit, they might get the wrong impression (especially with the girl in the blue plastic outfit bending over). [/quote]
I hear you guy, but the name of the site is Testosterone.
Pictures of those girls give me an electric charge. They make me want to work out.
However, I’m an innocent babe in the woods.
If enough of you want me to stop posting pictures of sexy girls on Friday, I will.
[quote]PGJ wrote:
Yes, I realize I can turn it off. That’s not the point. This is a bidybuilding/strength/fitness website. Why not use pictures that exemplify this? Using soft-porn is gratuitous and cheapens the intent of the site.
I guess the guys who come here and never visit the lifting forums like the pics. It’s not a big deal, just an idea.
If I tell a friend about T-Nation and they visit, they might get the wrong impression (especially with the girl in the blue plastic outfit bending over). [/quote]
[quote]TC wrote:
PGJ wrote:
Yes, I realize I can turn it off. That’s not the point. This is a bidybuilding/strength/fitness website. Why not use pictures that exemplify this? Using soft-porn is gratuitous and cheapens the intent of the site.
I guess the guys who come here and never visit the lifting forums like the pics. It’s not a big deal, just an idea.
If I tell a friend about T-Nation and they visit, they might get the wrong impression (especially with the girl in the blue plastic outfit bending over).
I hear you guy, but the name of the site is Testosterone.
Pictures of those girls give me an electric charge. They make me want to work out.
However, I’m an innocent babe in the woods.
If enough of you want me to stop posting pictures of sexy girls on Friday, I will.
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Nothing wrong with sexy girls, but there are plenty of sexy girls with muscle. I’m not trying to be a prude, but some of the pics just make me go WTF? Some skinny girl with big boobs doesn’t make me want to go to the gym. A girl with some obvious muscle squatting 300lbs or a Monica Brant, that’s something different.
I hear you guy, but the name of the site is Testosterone.
Pictures of those girls give me an electric charge. They make me want to work out.
However, I’m an innocent babe in the woods.
If enough of you want me to stop posting pictures of sexy girls on Friday, I will.
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Hell no TC. The friday babe and Atomic Dog goes hand in hand. People that don’t like the pictures should just turn it off in the options.
Actually I feel more awkward when there’s a guy in silk underwear (they seem to call it posing trunks?) staring at me from the left side of the page. But I don’t complain…
To me, I’d prefer more muscle in the Powerful Image. To me, there’s nothing particularly “powerful” about a woman with no muscle in lingere. Please don’t flame, but it has caused a few uncomfortable situations when people walk by or look over my shoulder (at home and work).
Just a humble suggestion. [/quote]
staring at boobs for 10 minutes a day is good for your health,
I think the Powerful Images (friday)
are the only thing on this site my coworkers can understand.
If anything the pictures of muscular men on monday make for more uncomfortable situations.
I hear you guy, but the name of the site is Testosterone.
Pictures of those girls give me an electric charge. They make me want to work out.
However, I’m an innocent babe in the woods.
If enough of you want me to stop posting pictures of sexy girls on Friday, I will.
Hell no TC. The friday babe and Atomic Dog goes hand in hand. People that don’t like the pictures should just turn it off in the options.
Actually I feel more awkward when there’s a guy in silk underwear (they seem to call it posing trunks?) staring at me from the left side of the page. But I don’t complain…[/quote]
[quote]PGJ wrote:
Yes, I realize I can turn it off. That’s not the point. This is a bidybuilding/strength/fitness website. Why not use pictures that exemplify this? Using soft-porn is gratuitous and cheapens the intent of the site.
I guess the guys who come here and never visit the lifting forums like the pics. It’s not a big deal, just an idea.
If I tell a friend about T-Nation and they visit, they might get the wrong impression (especially with the girl in the blue plastic outfit bending over). [/quote]
Personally, I couldnt agree with PGJ more. I’m fairly new here, and am a woman. I already turned off the Powerful Images feature both at work and at home because:
i’d be embarassed if anyone saw some of those images on my screen
i REALLY do not find them motivating orinspiring.
many of them are anything but powerful.
Honestly, the same could be said for many of the pictures that appear with the articles. They are often just gratitutious boob or ass shots, and cheapen the message of the article and the look of the whole site.
On good days i just ignore it, on bad days i really feel that the site appears a lot less credible than it could be. Today is a bad day.
[quote]PGJ wrote:
TC wrote:
PGJ wrote:
Yes, I realize I can turn it off. That’s not the point. This is a bidybuilding/strength/fitness website. Why not use pictures that exemplify this? Using soft-porn is gratuitous and cheapens the intent of the site.
I guess the guys who come here and never visit the lifting forums like the pics. It’s not a big deal, just an idea.
If I tell a friend about T-Nation and they visit, they might get the wrong impression (especially with the girl in the blue plastic outfit bending over).
I hear you guy, but the name of the site is Testosterone.
Pictures of those girls give me an electric charge. They make me want to work out.
However, I’m an innocent babe in the woods.
If enough of you want me to stop posting pictures of sexy girls on Friday, I will.
Nothing wrong with sexy girls, but there are plenty of sexy girls with muscle. I’m not trying to be a prude, but some of the pics just make me go WTF? Some skinny girl with big boobs doesn’t make me want to go to the gym. A girl with some obvious muscle squatting 300lbs or a Monica Brant, that’s something different.
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Thats the third time you have said the same thing…we get it…you don’t like chics…but everyone else here does