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FTFY. If you're going to make a comparison, don't be fucking dishonest about it.
Fine, a headshot of a male model cropped from a Playgirl centerfold and making bedroom eyes and visibly shirtless, because it was a shot from a spank mag, and then justified as an ongoing thing because it's such a "perfect" image.
It was obscure and tame enough to last for a long time, but it was always creepy and its continued use as a quasi-official test pattern said more about the tech community than people would like to admit.
Headshot of a male model selectively cropped so you don't see the hanging dong, you mean. I wonder if that context has any relevance. Hmmmmm. I wonder how many men might go "ick" if they knew the source?
As a dude, I certainly wouldn't care. As long as the content itself (the crop) isn't offensive, I don't really care where it was cropped from, provided they it satisfied fair use at least (or they had permission).