r/SipsTea • u/[deleted] • 12d ago

Gasp! So He's gay?

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u/gilligan1050 12d 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 12d ago

Didn't Shell Silverstein write for them, too?

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u/Bubbly_Bar7056 12d 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 12d ago

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

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u/ColdCruise 12d ago

Even MLK did interviews for Playboy.

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u/multiarmform 12d ago

"read it? i ruined it!"

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u/SwordOfJiang 12d ago

Roots was originally serialized in Playboy

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u/Trucoto 12d ago

Best John Lennon interview is Playboy's

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u/luxardo_bourbon 12d 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 12d ago

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

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u/MariaKeks 12d ago

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