Ironically, just before I cancelled my Playboy subscription, the …
Ironically, just before I cancelled my Playboy subscription, the articles were about ALL I was reading in it. The pictorials were pretty, sure, but they all look the same. Too perfect, too fake, and on top of it, now all the women are shaving their pubic hair, which makes me feel too much like I’m looking at a twelve year-old. I’ll take real women over that any day.
I was given the subscription to Playboy by my 80 year-old grandmother as a Christmas gift when I was 17. Her comment was that it was something every young man needed. The hilarity that ensued when I opened the gift was great.
And when my friends found out I had a subscription, they gave me shit because I read the magazines cover-to-cover. They didn’t understand the idea. My response: “You’ve got a subscription to Sports Illustrated, right?”
“Yeah, I do.”
“Well, don’t you read THAT cover-to-cover?”
“Of course.”
“Why wouldn’t I do the same with Playboy?”
Especially nowadays, you can find tits anywhere. Playboy really does have some phenomenal writing in it, though toward the end, even that was getting formulaic. Eventually, I gave up on it.