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Not exactly strange. We still employ people to stare at nudes at the new airport scanners after all.
I have a vague feeling of reading this on the new york times website years ago, it was a huge article. Looks like this is a reblogging? Yup, from 1995: http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/15/magazine/the-great-ivy-lea...
It's interesting how the word "nude" boosts posts to the top of the social hierarchy on HN, Reddit and YouTube, among other sites, even in cases when the content would be otherwise irrelevant or uninteresting to the communities.
This story comes up every now and then; I have a hard time seeing it as a “scandal”. It’s nothing more than a piece of historical anatomical pseudoscience that happens to tickle the salacious fancies of puritan America with the proximity of “nudity” and the names of recognizable celebrities. Might as well be phrenology otherwise.
Sure, it's not at the level of secret Plutonium injection, but still...