Why not show them off? There's something sexy about female athletes. Asian U Volleyball: India defeat Pak to enter final. And, once again, the same questions are being rolled out. I mean, fair's fair, right? Sexploitation or Pride? She was the first tennis player to pose nude for Playboy when she appeared in the August edition.

Athens critics dubbed the Spartan athletes "thigh flashers," and playwright Euripides insulted Sparta's lack of restraint and chastity in a popular B. And does the context, in a special edition of a respected publication that features pictures of both male and female athletes, separate it from Amy Acuff's layout in Playboy or Logan Tom's spread in FHM? Kids with good bodies getting naked. Sonia named interim Cong chief after marathon meet. There are a host of other modern athletes who have done photo shoots for various mazagines and covers. She's a spectacular athlete with an athlete's body. More to the point, the body issue is about the "form" of the body, not the details.

But her intention was "to help encourage young people, and especially girls, to exercise, stay in shape and be healthy. Arguably the best tennis player in history, Serena Williams has gone nude for a fashion magazine cover. Alanna from Orenburg Age: And whether it's a man or woman, I love looking at their lean, tone bodies. Follow holliesmckay on Twitter.

The original GoDaddy girl, former WWE wrestler and brunette beauty extraordinaire has virtually done it all, including pose in the April edition of Playboy. She understands that to power her body on the field, she needs to have the energy that comes from eating healthy food. Canada's Waneek Horn-Miller appeared naked with a strategically placed water polo ball on the cover of Time magazine's Canadian edition. But I'd prefer we, as a society, err on the side of letting the athletes make their own decisions about posing or appearing on a reality TV show or being interviewed by Playboy and those sorts of things. In reality, sexuality had little to do with male athletes competing without clothes during the original Olympic games, said David Romano, senior research scientist in the Mediterranean section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.