Sad day: a talented and beautiful Wimbledon athlete, despite her self-professed Catholic beliefs, took off all her clothes for a tacky ESPN pictorial. Agnieszka Radwanska, 24, is a proud Catholic, but youth group Krucjata Mlodych (Youth Crusade) has condemned the shoot as “immoral behavior” and dropped her from its campaigns. She had starred in a commercial for the group where she spells out Jesus with tennis balls and tells people not to be ashamed of their faith. Senior Catholic priest Father Marek Dziewiecki said: “It's a shame that someone who has declared their love for Jesus is now promoting the mentality of men looking at a woman as a thing rather than a child of God worthy of respect and love. If she meets a man who she can truly love and establish a happy family and raise Catholic children, then she would probably have to hide these pictures from relatives.” Tragically, it seems that the pornographic mentality of the West is also infecting our Eastern European brothers: the belief that sexually explicit material is glamorous and harmless fun. And, although minuscule when compared to the American porn industry, regardless, Poland is among the top 10 counties in the world for the number of on-line pornographic web-pages.
I looked at a few of the other ESPN photos and they utterly fail at even nearing the realm of Art. It’s all butt-shots and barely concealed cleavage. Every person is over-oiled and the women are deliberately positioned to reveal far more than the men. (The photo of Agnieszka is made even uglier by the inclusion of two strategically placed balls in her hands.)