Sometimes I think back to when I was in college, and how I had to hide my copies of Maxim, FHM and Stuff when they arrived in the mail each month, because otherwise my bros and friends would steal them and I’d never get to read the hilarious jokes, check out the latest witty t-shirts or appreciate the bikini-clad women who had already appeared naked in Playboy but felt like reaching a slightly-less-perverted demographic. Man, those were much simpler times.

Now, I like to think that I’ve evolved a little more and am what my peers at the wine bars refer to as progressive. Those subscriptions to Maxim and FHM have been replaced by a growing collection of books that I often stare at and think, “I really should read one of those”, and the witty t-shirts have been replaced by plain t-shirts.

But it’s still kind of nice to know that even when I think that I’ve matured and have become a reasonable, intelligent adult, that can all be shot to sh*t by one magazine cover featuring Brittney Palmer and Arianny Celeste. You can take the bro out of the college, but never the college out of the bro.

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One school of thought says that if a woman (specifically a woman who is sexy for a living) poses nude, she can never go back in time and do cheesecake bikini shoots because the mystery is gone, and if you wanted to see her naked you’d just google her naked. Another says that a beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, and that if she’s tangentially sports-related and looks this great in regressive stages of bikini, you should celebrate it.

Allow us to celebrate it.

Arianny Celeste, Octagon girl and “noticeably hot lady in the background of most UFC weigh-in photos”, appears in various stages of undress for the May 2012 issue of FHM Philippines, and unless you’ve got a subscription or are gonna fly to the Philippines and pick up a copy you can just look at them here. Not Buying Magazines is what the prime directive of the Internet, isn’t it?

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