Why Have There Been So Many Butts on the Cover of Vice in Recent Years?
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The Observer asked, and Vice editor Jesse Pearson answered. "How do I say this? We like nudity in the magazine, but breasts or bush on the cover is just not really where we want to go ... butts are kinda safe, you know what I mean? They're sexual but they're funny at the same." Now you know. [NYO]

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