Haaaaaaah I'd not seen that one before. I love how horrendously uncomfortable they all look, with the exception of that guy in the middle, who seems to enjoy the breeze.

What I think is the most interesting about the Totally Appropriate Covers post is how she obviously did it by colorizing gay porn pinups -- and what do gay porn and straight comics have in common? Male gaze. It's not about the sex of the model, it's about how they've been -- as the OP put it -- distilled to their sexual attributes, and the only place to go to see the male gaze applied to men is gay porn.