In a previous post I wrote about Burton Snowboards using Playmates on the Love graphics. I thought I wrote a moderate post that looked at the graphics from a different angle. According to the comments, readers were offended that I wasn’t offended about naked women.

Why are naked people offensive? Why can’t a woman be alright with another woman’s choice to pose nude? And I’m not alone on this one–more than 36% of visitors to Playboy.com are women. Women celebrate the Playboy brand by purchasing millions of bunny necklaces, Pjs, embroidered leather jackets and the like. Mind you, I’m not talking about human-trafficking or porn that’s coerced with violence and abuse.

I studied art history in college and looked at naked women in every class through every time period. There is an entire wing of the National Archeological Museum in Naples dedicated to ancient porn! Mosaics, fresco and sculpture all about nudity and sex. Sexual curiosity isn’t demeaning, it’s human nature! Which is why the term “Naked women” is searched 33,989 times each day. And “Sex” is searched over 340,000 times per day. And “Porn” is searched over 340,000 each day. To put that in perspective, “Barack Obama” is searched 17,000 times, “John McCain” is searched 16,285 times each day and “snowboards” is searched just 638 times.

I’m not saying naked ladies should be everywhere, but I’m against resistance to them. Countries that restrict a woman’s body are also societies that forbid women from driving cars and stone them for showing their elbows. Free speech allows women to pose nude, and snowboarders to write blogs, and people to comment on them.

My complaint isn’t with nudity, it’s with Burton contributing to a boy’s club atmosphere that excludes women on the slopes. Outside of snowboard graphics, naked ladies are okay by me (and the vast majority of internet users, according to available search data).