Posted on 08/02/2019 2:07:53 PM PDT by Magnatron
“This is a full nude shoot to be conducted underwater,” a woman said into a phone, her voice carrying across a row of cubicles.
“Right, that’s right,” she continued. The person on the other end didn’t seem to quite get it. “As in, it won’t be on land.”
It was a Tuesday morning at the Westwood headquarters of Playboy Enterprises,, and editors were preparing to close their summer issue. Gathered between a velvet love seat and a view of Santa Monica, they discussed upcoming stories — a piece on B.D.S.M., a profile of Pete Buttigieg — while in the kitchen, a barista stenciled bunny ears into latte foam.
In his office, Shane Singh, Playboy’s executive editor, explained that the underwater photo shoot, to be photographed that weekend, was for the magazine’s cover — but not in the way that older, leering readers might expect.
“The water is meant to represent gender and sexual fluidity,” Mr. Singh said, seated beneath a 1988 Herb Ritts portrait of Cindy Crawford. The women who would pose in that water — their limbs wrapped around one another in a balletlike pose — were not simply models but activists. One uses performance art and digital media to share stories about the H.I.V. epidemic. Another is an underwater dancer who promotes ocean conservation. The third, a Belgian artist, recently filmed herself walking naked through a Hasidic neighborhood of Brooklyn during a sacred holiday. (An angry mob chased her out.)
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Ah, Wokeboy.
Put Bruce Gender on the cover. That should entice.
Notice the mention of B.D.S.M. with Mayor Buttgag?
I only buy it for the articles...../S
It sounds like they also use it to spread it.
Whatever happened to the tasteful displays of beavers?
Hefner spent every spare Playboy dime on Sugar Babies.
The mansion is a dump and the girls are gone.
The only thing left is to dig a hole and bury Playboy.
Just for kicks, 8 years ago I read “A Bunny’s Tail” about what really went on in the mansion.
Still creeps me out a bit years later.
The casting couch exists and many of them were in the Playboy Mansion.
Yeah, the 0.05% of Trans people will save Playboy. [/s]
Makes you wonder: What part of word “Playboy” don’t they understand?
Seems like the Eighties was the last decade that Playboy was worth a damn. Remember looking at some issues in the last 90s/early 2000s; it looked like a mess. They caught the same PC disease that infected all the others mens mags, including Esquire and GQ.
In all fairness, though, the massive amount of free porn on the Internet should have doomed any nudie mag. Frankly, I’m amazed they’ve survived this long.
No way Anita Little was born a woman. And the woman they’re dressing up in the msn photo looks like her boobs deflated.
Playboy is an anachronism..........
For Millennials they may as well just remove all the articles. They either can’t read them or understand them anyhow.
They could just print nude memes..
I still have a lifetime subscription I got back when I was 18 (I’m 57 now) for $125.
I haven’t bothered to even open the magazine out of their wrappers in the past 10 years.
I used to just sell them on eBay, but I don’t even try that anymore.
LOL, funny scene. At first we think he’s looking up her dress, but she really had a stuffed beaver in the attic. Nice comedy.
lol... I think even some of those could be challenging for them.
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