Barnes & Noble and Borders censor shirtless male model on magazine cover

Bookstores are requiring this magazine cover of a topless male model be hidden in a plastic sleeve. Photo courtesy …

Many magazines like Men's Fitness, Rolling Stone, and GQ feature shirtless men on their covers, but when androgynous male model Andrej Pejic appeared on the new cover of Dossier bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders banned the magazine unless it was housed in an opaque plastic sleeve like a porno mag. Seriously?! We've seen ladies pose with barely-there clothing, hands, or even paint covering their breasts on magazine covers, and those aren't censored either. Is this discrimination?

The bookstores are well aware that Pejic is a man. Lacking breasts. But they are worried some customers might be confused. We do understand where some of the confusion may come from. During the last New York Fashion Week, Pejic walked the runway for five men's  shows and four women's shows, even wearing a wedding dress at the Jean-Paul Gautier show in Paris. He can be made up to look like a woman sometimes, but the fact is, Pejic is a man! And the folks at Borders and Barnes & Noble know this. He may not have jacked up muscles, and he may have his hair in curlers on the cover of an artsy fashion magazine, but no male's chest has ever been censored before, so why start now?

via ca.shine.yahoo.com