Last night's episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver featured a segment which addressed a question that everyone who is not a 56-year-old dad who still masturbates to magazines in the bathroom has asked: How is the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue still a thing?
As it turns out, there's not really a good answer, unless you count giving horny weirdos like Darren Rovell opportunity to embarrass themselves on TV as a reason for the issue's existence. If that's the case, the magazine is serving its purpose just fine.