Posted on 06/21/2003 9:13:12 PM PDT by uglybiker
And blind.
I can see some truth in what you said here. However, it's just a symbol that could mean different things to different people. I can break down an entire philosophy that can be summed up with this symbol, and it has nothing to do with sex.
That's why I like it.
Well, at least you can be comfortable knowing that there won't be any "coming out of the closet" surprises later on down the road. ;-)
(sigh)...EEErrr, What no BOATS?... :)
I agree. I used to actually *read* the magazine. Now they have become entirely too left-wing for my tastes, particularly with their articles bashing gun owners.
Why does Playboy feel the need to pick on gun owners? They don't have a dog in that fight.
Furthermore, people can knock Larry Flynt around as much as they like, but give the man some credit. Flynt never condescends to his readers the way Hef does. Just look at Playboy's "fashion" section every month. Believe me, the "Man Who Reads Playboy" does not wear $500 t-shirts, $2400 jackets and $20,000 watches.
In doing this, Playboy makes it's readers feel inferior and missing something.
Finally, the girls. Playboy's models have become entirely too plastic, enhanced and airbrushed. They are precicely the type of girl who would never date the "Man Who Reads Playboy." Flynt, on the other hand has taken average looking college-aged girls with no makeup and no airbrushing and catapulted sales of his Barely Legal magazine through the roof with this concept.
Now there is Maxim which brilliantly adopted a no-nudity rule so that the magazine can be sold in grocery stores. Maxim also writes articles and has fashion spreads that do not make a man feel bad about himself. MAxim actually celebrates masculinity. Playboy condemns it. Is it any wonder Maxim is beating the hell out of Playboy?
Yeah.
Hey, Hef. Trade places?
Be my guest. : )
When I was 12, I "discovered" my dad's stashed-away collection of Playboys and Penthouses from the late 70s. I'd always known about them but it wasn't until I was older that I was actually interested in looking at them.
Interestingly enough, when I was finished "looking" at the pictures, I would read the articles, letters, etc. This gave me a fairly well-rounded knowledge about sex and the human body. By the time I entered Jr. High, I was well versed in the facts and myths surrounding human sexuality.
Actually I have given my son (age 14) some Playboy magazines.
I pondered over this statement again.
I think what you did for your son and what my father enabled me to do is now currently illegal with severe punishments.
This wouldn't surprise me. I think he found them in the garage and I allowed him to keep them. My husband has other magazines that come from Germany. The kind that are written in 4 languages but don't contain any articles. Those are kept locked up. He can look at them when he gets older but for now? Playboy is nothing comparatively. Playboy channel (on the other hand) used to be Hard R but now they show much more x rated stuff. Luckily he got out of that phase before the change in format.
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