When Is Showing A Tit Not Nudity, And When Does It Stop Turning You On?

I was struggling with what to blog post, but thank goodness I signed off on my e-mail and scrolled through the front page of Yahoo!  There is a story about Kelly Crump, who posed in this year's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.  She is not a model, or at least she didn't model at all before she answered one of SI's auditions.  But she was compelled to try out after getting a mastectomy in her left breast to combat her breast cancer.  And like it often is with the now-woke Swimsuit Issue, Crump's unique backstory got her on its pages.  (It helps that the 44-year-old is in very good shape and hot as fuck.)

What I didn't expect is that the magazine would show the scar.  Thing is, it's right across the middle of her left tit ... and yes, you see that, her whole left tit, in the magazine.  There is no nipple or areola, just the breast.  But Crump flashes it for all to see.

Bold choice by Sports Illustrated.  But I have to ask: Isn't that nudity?  If it isn't, are you saying that it's only a nipple and/or areola that turns a breast into an obscenity that needs to be regulated?  I would think that a breast would be enough to have a magazine that picture is in be covered in plastic ... but then I see the photo in question and it is ... just ... skin.  Maybe this picture lives in a liminal state where it isn't pornography, but it isn't something we should freely allow children to see either.  Or maybe the mag and society are just trying to figure out what should be acceptable.

Moreover, how, uh, titillating is a tit without a nipple?  Is it no longer arousing without one, or can you get up for it?  Maybe context is important; like I said, Kelly Crump is fucking gorgeous, and she is wearing a swimsuit whereby (I think) the part of the suit that would cover the left boob is pulled down to show it off, and like I have said before, I love flasher photos.  But maybe you disagree?

Anyway, here is the story.  If you have any opinion, let me know in the comments below.  But for right now, I will say that showing a tit with a mastectomy scar is still nudity, and a tit with no nipple nor areola is still erection-inducing.  I bought this issue a couple months ago through Amazon and I still haven't opened up the box, but if she and her exposed boob is in there, I'm ripping open that box as soon as I have time.  And I will probably jerk off to that picture, too.