Nudes of performance athletes

ESPN's "Bodies We Want" photo series features "tasteful" nudes of performance athletes (tasteful inasmuch as all the genitals and women's nipples are figleafed). It's a pretty amazing series, in part because so many of the images are sexually charged in some way, and yet the athletes' bodies are very different from the sort that appear in either pornography or body-building images, the other genres that habitually display nude or near-nude people whose bodies are far from the median of human appearance.

2012 Body Issue's Bodies We Want – ESPN The Magazine

(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

(Image: Danell Levya, photographed by Peter Hapak — downsized thumbnail)