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A patchwork of recent Polet magazine covers.
When I was a boy, my mother would occasionally buy copies of German magazines like Stern or Spiegel,
which were available at some newsstands in the United States. Sometimes
these magazines would have nudity on the cover, usually to illustrate a
health-related story.
One
day, a religious couple came over
to our house for a visit and saw one of these magazines lying casually
on the living-room table. In the uproar that followed, they chastised
my mother for keeping
"pornography" in the house — stressing that it was even worse of her
to leave it out in the open where a young and impressionable boy could
see it. It took my Mom
a few moments to figure out what was going on; when she tried to
explain that even serious political magazines in Germany sometimes put
naked ladies on their covers, they didn’t believe it.
If that couple got upset about a harmless issue of Spiegel, I can’t imagine what the Slovenian magazine Polet would do to them. Simultaneous pulmonary embolisms, most likely.
Polet
(the name literally means "flight") is a weekly supplement that is
bundled together with Thursday editions of the leading Slovenian
newspaper, Delo.
It generally deals with light-hearted topics like sports and
recreation. One thing that sets it apart from other supplements is its
stubborn insistence on featuring naked people (usually women) on the
cover. Unlike Spiegel, though, the nudity is
in no way connected to the content inside. It’s just there. No explanations, no rationale: Just naked people.
Sometimes, though, the content and pictures collide in funny
ways. For example, you might have noticed that the cover in the top-right corner has the
words "Surf’s Up!" written over a woman’s arse. I also like the
bottom-left cover, which has "Juan Carlos Ferrero" written beneath a topless woman who is definitely not a Juan, a Carlos, or a Ferrero. But the absolute king of all Polet covers is this. (NFSW, obviously)
The unintended result is sublime.
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There is a line between pornography and erotic. And none of the Polet covers were pornographic.The
thing you forgot to mention is that Delo also has a tuesday’s
supplement called Ona (She). Not that either of those two is strictly
ment for one or the other sex you can easily make the connection
between the supplements and sexes. So being more man supplement the
cover has a point (espacially knowing what most of mens thoughts are
about (women, cars and sports)).And at last - name Polet -
you’re absolutely right, it means Flight. But also right can mean that
it’s truth or that you want to go in the direction opposite of left.
Here Polet doesn’t really mean flight, a quick look at the dicctionary
reveals the other meaning - enthusiasm. Now also the cover and the contents makes more
sense.
I’ve often been bemused by the near-insistence of Polet to have
ta-tas on the cover, week in and week out. Not bothered, mind you. A
good place to look for pointers on perfecting your chiaroscuro techniques.
Prefer to see a naked woman than Bush or some similar specimens!
mAT - Thanks for sharing your preferences with us all like that: naked women but no bush, eh!
Michael,I disagree. Whenever I see the true beauty of Nature as evidence by that one Polet
cover that you referred to of a bare-breasted women with her arms
akimbo,( the traditional Slavic woman pose of "So, what are you going
to do now?"), I always cry out "Juan Carlos Ferrero!" It’s the polite thing to say. I mean, it would be inapproriate to say "Jesus H. Christ!". Now, that would be offensive.
Back in the days of YU there was another serious magazine, called START.
It used to ALWAYS have a naked chick on the cover and in much more
pornographic poses. There were these stipid little stars on the most
private parts, but the poses were mostly spread-eagle. My
dad used to read the magazine right in front of my mom and I used to
think it was a nudie magazine, so I stayed away from it. Then one day
curiosity prevailed and I was dissapointed to find out that there were
absolutely no nudie pictures inside, only boring articles and
interviews. BTW, your chosen photo about Royal Trekking reminded me of the Axe commercial. PArticularly this one. I wonder if that is also an armpit.
Well the Polet cover which had Trekking in Pakistan, gave you two for the price of one! a naked lady AND Bush! aaahem said that to make you feel better..Moveing
right along, I would NOT go trekking in the Pakistani wilderness these
days, especially not carrying this or any other copy of Polet where the
inhabitants could see it, far too many Taliban running about loose, I
mean isn’t that supposed to be the home of the bin-Ladin Fan Club?
Oh I just remembered a Stern cover from my youth, it had this gorgeous
German guy, (mind I’m not that drawn to German guys but he WAS
gorgeous!) naked save for a strategically placed helmet of the old
spiked Kaiser Bill era type. I have never forgotten it, it was a great
picture!
Katja,I believe his name was Helmut Head.
Well, erotica or pornography, Polet is getting really old really fast with the "nude-female-body-from-every-imaginable-angle" theme. I mean, at least 90% of Polet readers have seen a naken woman in their life so there’s reallly no point a nude cover virtually every single week. But that’s just my opinion
DarkoV I laughed out loud that was funny!penogvsky, I bet it’s for the 99.1% who would like to see OTHER female bodies simply for purposes of ummm … comparison!