VERY DISMAYED

To Whom It May Concern:

I have been reading the last [issue], and was VERY DISMAYED to find an advertisement for the __________ Bible. Now I am not unhappy about the bible, but the picture that was in the add, specifically of the woman. As a woman, who works as a marriage and family therapist for a pregnancy crisis center, I DAILY work with sex abuse, addictions and pornography issues. As a woman involved in church on a leadership level, and who has had deep discussions (with men and women) of what and how men think and see women, sex, and the sexualization of our country, and just how damaging sexual addictions can be for men AND women – I WAS VERY DISMAYED to see the add with what looked to me like an attractive woman, wearing a white loose fitting shirt, bra-less with the outline of a nipple showing through the shirt (handily right above the bible – isn’t that nice??)

PLEASE, PLEASE consider what you are placing in your magazine – and for a BIBLE no less?? I hope that it would be your wish to not be a stumbling block to christen me and women who might have problems of this nature, and you will carefully consider the pictures that are published in your magazine.

After much communication and study, our editors came to the conclusion that this particular Nipple-Gate simply did not exist. What was she looking for exactly, I wonder?