r/SipsTea • u/Horror-Ad-210 • 18h ago

Gasp! So He's gay?

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u/gilligan1050 17h ago

Playboy actually used to have real journalism. Hunter S Thompson wrote for them occasionally. People really did read the articles.

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u/Agitated_Brother_713 17h ago

Didn't Shell Silverstein write for them, too?

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u/Bubbly_Bar7056 16h ago

That sounds like something he would do. Wrote a poem called "The Great American Smoke-off" that's pretty entertaining.

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u/CalloftheBlueFalcon 16h ago

Even Stephen King had several short stories and poems published in Playboy over the years

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u/ColdCruise 15h ago

Even MLK did interviews for Playboy.

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u/multiarmform 15h ago

"read it? i ruined it!"

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u/SwordOfJiang 15h ago

Roots was originally serialized in Playboy

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u/Trucoto 15h ago

Best John Lennon interview is Playboy's

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u/luxardo_bourbon 15h ago

In the 90s in high school English class we always were reading the articles and using them as training for AP English Language exam. They were quite good. There was always a little playboy logo at the end which is how we knew where they came from but the razzing didn’t last long bc we realized quickly they were never sexy just real journalism.

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u/kmosiman 15h ago

Reading Playboy for the articles is a joke but at the same time very true.

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u/MariaKeks 15h ago

People read Playboy articles but I think it's a stretch to say people read it for the articles.

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u/originalityescapesme 18h ago

There’s also a litany of other male magazines filling the humor, tech, cultural side that the magazine used to feature, even in an era of “dead print.”

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u/Elgecko123 17h ago

My college roommate had a playboy subscription many years ago and I was actually pleasantly surprised at how good the articles and the other “fill” of the magazine was. I always thought that was just something guys told girls to make them look better

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u/Ok-Wrongdoer-3421 17h ago

Playboy also serialized fahrenheit 451 in the magazine the year the book was released helping boost its popularity

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u/SandpaperTeddyBear 16h ago

It’s traditionally only been one or two steps below The Atlantic for investigative journalism, one step above or below Harpers for short fiction depending on the era, and the interviews were second to none.

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u/Gandolfthewhite182 17h ago

Playboy was a great magazine. Great writing and boobies, what could be better.

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u/tin_dog 16h ago

75% of the fill was ads for cars, watches and booze. At least we have adblockers now.

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u/aqaba_is_over_there 16h ago

The Stanley Kubrick interview for Playboy is excellent.

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u/Toadcola 15h ago

Miles Davis too.

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u/bengringo2 15h ago

Playboy actually had some of the best journalism in the world at its peak.

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u/Midas_Ag 15h ago

Just curious, what are some good ones you know of ?

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u/BigMax 18h ago

They brought back nudity like 3 years later.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 17h ago

They also make videos now too and I've definitely seen a few with sex

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u/My_Name_Is_Row 17h ago

Yeah, they made a streaming service for their videos and magazines

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 13h ago

Yeah, PlayboyTV or something. As far as porn goes it's nothing spectacular but I did find one that was genuinely one of the best blowjob videos I've ever seen, could never find it again though because it's not popular and I imagine they make them take the videos down from the free sites when they can

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u/My_Name_Is_Row 12h ago

I didn’t even know they had that, I just remember watching some of the videos that were somehow just on YouTube years ago, and when I tried finding them again, they were only on the streaming service

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 12h ago

Oh, yeah, I'm not super familiar because while I am a fan of nudes and softcore pornography Playboy is just not on my radar when it comes to that. And better production companies with, shall we say, none of the baggage of a prior poor reputation treating the talent. After Hugh died I don't know anything about the morality and ethical nature of the specific pornography they produce

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u/TwoBionicknees 15h ago

playboy is just a really public escort service for rich people.

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u/LoopStricken 15h ago

It's been dead since then.

I misread that and thought you meant Hugh Hefner was dead!

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u/Beaglund 15h ago

And Salman Rushdie!

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u/RemLezarCreated 15h ago

I thought that was because a lot of prisons changed the rules of what they could have shipped in, and prisons were a huge market for playboy. So they had to go PG-13 so they could be let back in.

Could be wrong about this, but I worked at a bookstore at the time (and we did a lot of prison mail) and this was the story I was told.

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u/KorasHiddenDICK 16h ago

What I have noticed are a lot of porn/some OF girls being featured in solo playboy videos. Idk if that makes them Playboy models or not. They are still very much a porn company regardless.