Thanks to Diamond, the nude magazine possibly bound for Penn in the near future, students will no longer have to imagine what that cute girl in Econ looks like naked. They’ll know.

(Of course, the same goes for the obnoxious girl in Psych and the infrequent bather in Physics.)

‘Tis the utopia that Matthew M. Di Pasquale, a Harvard senior, imagines.

Di Pasquale is the creator and editor-in-chief of Diamond, the controversial magazine that will star nude or semi-nude Harvard students. And, fortunately for us, he wants to publish a Penn edition of the magazine starting next year. If he solicits models in the same fashion that he did at Harvard, all you ladies can expect a dignified email requesting nude photos of “all hot Penn girls.”

For all those radical feminists who think that a college nudie mag may objectify women, you can rest easy knowing Di Pasquale assures us that he “wants the reader to understand who [the models] are and what they’re doing in their lives.” He even offers us some comforting words: “I read the interviews in Maxim.”

I’m certain that Diamond’s interviews will quickly become just as anticipated and well-read as Maxim’s.

While Di Pasquale admits that Playboy pimp daddy Hugh Hefner is an influence, he wants the magazine to be “Maxim-esque.” (Except, of course, instead of featuring clothed pictures of Avril Lavigne or Tara Reid, Diamond will have naked pictures of That Girl Who Puked In Adam’s Bed Freshman Year.) He plans to “inform, empower, and inspire.”

So we, as Penn students, should do what we do best: nothing. Let’s ward off any prudish feelings we may have and embrace the magazine with open arms. We should not let such a well-intentioned, enlightening venture in sexual expression pass our campus by. I think that Di Pasquale himself sums it up best:

“I have desires, too, and I’m being completely real with you — it would be a sweet job to be around women all the time.”

Amen, Matt. Amen.

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