History Magazine / NationalGeographic

Since 2015, National Geographic's media properties, including its flagship magazine, have been operated under the joint venture National Geographic Partners, which was majority owned by UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch[='=]s 21st Century Fox, with National Geographic Society maintaining a minority interest. In 2019, Fox sold its stake in National Geographic Partners, along with the majority of its entertainment properties, to Creator/{{Disney}}, who plan to make National Geographic a major provider for content on their Creator/DisneyPlus service.

-->''When I was an [[HormoneAddledTeenager adolescent]], the only reliable source of breast visuals was National Geographic, a magazine then devoted, as far as I can tell, to doing feature articles on every primitive tribe in the world in which the women went around topless. When I was in junior high school, my friends and I were '''extremely''' interested in these articles, specifically the photographs that had captions like "A young woman of the Mbonga tribe prepares supper using primitive implements." We would spend long periods of time staring at the young woman's implements, and we'd wonder how come we'd had the incredibly bad luck of being born in the one society in the entire world (judging from National Geographic) wherein women wore a lot of clothes.''

-->--Creator/DaveBarry

-->''When [[Creator/DaveBarry I]] was an [[HormoneAddledTeenager adolescent]], the only reliable source of breast visuals was National Geographic, a magazine then devoted, as far as I can tell, to doing feature articles on every primitive tribe in the world in which the women went around topless. When I was in junior high school, my friends and I were '''extremely''' interested in these articles, specifically the photographs that had captions like "A young woman of the Mbonga tribe prepares supper using primitive implements." We would spend long periods of time staring at the young woman's implements, and we'd wonder how come we'd had the incredibly bad luck of being born in the one society in the entire world (judging from National Geographic) wherein women wore a lot of clothes.''

-->''When [[Creator/DaveBarry I]] was an [[HornyTeenager adolescent]], the only reliable source of breast visuals was National Geographic, a magazine then devoted, as far as I can tell, to doing feature articles on every primitive tribe in the world in which the women went around topless. When I was in junior high school, my friends and I were '''extremely''' interested in these articles, specifically the photographs that had captions like "A young woman of the Mbonga tribe prepares supper using primitive implements." We would spend long periods of time staring at the young woman's implements, and we'd wonder how come we'd had the incredibly bad luck of being born in the one society in the entire world (judging from National Geographic) wherein women wore a lot of clothes.''

-->''When [[Creator/DaveBarry I]] was an [[HornyTeen adolescent]], the only reliable source of breast visuals was National Geographic, a magazine then devoted, as far as I can tell, to doing feature articles on every primitive tribe in the world in which the women went around topless. When I was in junior high school, my friends and I were '''extremely''' interested in these articles, specifically the photographs that had captions like "A young woman of the Mbonga tribe prepares supper using primitive implements." We would spend long periods of time staring at the young woman's implements, and we'd wonder how come we'd had the incredibly bad luck of being born in the one society in the entire world (judging from National Geographic) wherein women wore a lot of clothes.''

-->''[[Creator/DaveBarry When I was an adolescent]], the only reliable source of breast visuals was National Geographic, a magazine then devoted, as far as I can tell, to doing feature articles on every primitive tribe in the world in which the women went around topless. When I was in junior high school, my friends and I were '''extremely''' interested in these articles, specifically the photographs that had captions like "A young woman of the Mbonga tribe prepares supper using primitive implements." We would spend long periods of time staring at the young woman's implements, and we'd wonder how come we'd had the incredibly bad luck of being born in the one society in the entire world (judging from National Geographic) wherein women wore a lot of clothes.''

The National Geographic Society is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its magazine publication and TV channel cover a wide range of topics, including geography, archaeology, natural science, anthropology and technology. The institution is known to strongly promote environmental and historical conservation, and the study and appreciation of culture from all over the globe. The National Geographic Society’s logo is a yellow rectangular portrait frame, which appears as margins on the front covers of its magazines and as its television channel logo.

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* BaitAndSwitchCredits: [[http://i.imgur.com/sBSkQ.jpg This]] infamous front page article. [[spoiler: The cover asks "Was Darwin wrong?" and the first inside page states "No."]]

The media studies work ''Reading National Geographic'' found that, aside from choosing to represent areas of the world with images that reinforce specific themes (the Pacific islands are idyllic, East Asia is eccentric and a decade behind the times, African children smile when doing backbreaking labor, etc.), what nudity is permitted in ''National Geographic'' depends on who's doing it. African, Native American and other "primitive" people get their naughty bits published, while European vacationers on a nude beach don't. And in a strange case of RaceLift, persons with borderline skin tones will have their skin ''darkened'' in order to be acceptably nude.

* ShirleyTemplate: An article about Los Angeles in the January 1979 issue shows [[https://archive.org/details/NationalGeographicMagazine197901January/page/n25/mode/2up a group of celebrity impersonators]], among them a child performer dressed up as Shirley Temple.

Since 2015, National Geographic's media properties, including its flagship magazine, have been operated under the joint venture National Geographic Partners, which was majority owned by UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch[='=]s 21st Century Fox, with National Geographic Society maintaining a minority interest. In 2019, Fox sold its stake in National Geographic Partners, along with the majority of its entertainment properties, to Creator/{{Disney}}, who plan to make National Geographic a major provider for content on their Creator/DisneyPlus service set to launch later in the year.

Since 2015, National Geographic's media properties, including its flagship magazine, have been operated under the joint venture National Geographic Partners, which is majority owned by UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch[='=]s 21st Century Fox, with National Geographic Society maintaining a minority interest. In 2019, Fox sold its stake in National Geographic Partners, along with the majority of its entertainment properties, to Creator/{{Disney}}, who plan to make National Geographic a major provider for content on their Creator/DisneyPlus service set to launch later in the year.

Since 2015, National Geographic's media properties, including its flagship magazine, have been operated under the joint venture National Geographic Partners, which is majority owned by UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch[='=]s 21st Century Fox, with National Geographic Society maintaining a minority interest. In 2019, Fox will sell its stake in National Geographic Partners, along with the majority of its entertainment properties, to Creator/{{Disney}}, who plans to make National Geographic a major provider for content on their Creator/DisneyPlus service set to launch later in the year.

* BaitAndSwitchCredits:[[http://i.imgur.com/sBSkQ.jpg This]] infamous front page article. [[spoiler: The cover asks "Was Darwin wrong?" and the first inside page states "No."]]

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-->''When I was an adolescent, the only reliable source of breast visuals was National Geographic, a magazine then devoted, as far as I can tell, to doing feature articles on every primitive tribe in the world in which the women went around topless. When I was in junior high school, my friends and I were '''extremely''' interested in these articles, specifically the photographs that had captions like "A young woman of the Mbonga tribe prepares supper using primitive implements." We would spend long periods of time staring at the young woman's implements, and we'd wonder how come we'd had the incredibly bad luck of being born in the one society in the entire world (judging from National Geographic) wherein women wore a lot of clothes.''

Trope in National Geographic include: