Playboy: curves on top, lines below
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elfsI haven't looked at Playboy in years. My porn-consuming habits have more or less died down in recent years, maybe just because real life is so much more compelling. I still read FleshBot once in a while, and this week decided to click through the Babelogs collection of the week. I wasn't impressed for the most part: it's "previews" and "teasers," and most of the women there are more artifice than attractant.
Playboy seems to be a big player in this space: they still have the best photographers, the best studios, a huge warchest and a solid reputation, even if Hef himself has confessed that he's too old for sex and would rather "just play dominoes with [his] girls."
Every single woman I looked at from the Playboy sets had no butt. They all had pretty faces and enormous busts, not all of which were convincingly natural, but from the rear they may as well have been boys, and not very attractive boys. Maybe it's just that I am not Hef and have a more appreciative eyes for a well-shaped woman's ass than I do for ample bosoms (not to mention my preference for brunettes over blondes, and an appreciation for girls with glasses), but I found the look disappointing. Is this just Playboy's thing? To Hef's spec of "Shirley Temple's eyes, Jayne Mansfield's bust" should we add "Mark Spitz's airbrushed rear end?"
It must be a Playboy thing. My comment about the eyeglasses thing was a bit of a snark: only three times in history has a woman who wears corrective lenses appeared on the centerfold, and in each of the three cases she was inundated with fan mail from optometrists offering free contact lenses.
Playboy seems to be a big player in this space: they still have the best photographers, the best studios, a huge warchest and a solid reputation, even if Hef himself has confessed that he's too old for sex and would rather "just play dominoes with [his] girls."
Every single woman I looked at from the Playboy sets had no butt. They all had pretty faces and enormous busts, not all of which were convincingly natural, but from the rear they may as well have been boys, and not very attractive boys. Maybe it's just that I am not Hef and have a more appreciative eyes for a well-shaped woman's ass than I do for ample bosoms (not to mention my preference for brunettes over blondes, and an appreciation for girls with glasses), but I found the look disappointing. Is this just Playboy's thing? To Hef's spec of "Shirley Temple's eyes, Jayne Mansfield's bust" should we add "Mark Spitz's airbrushed rear end?"
It must be a Playboy thing. My comment about the eyeglasses thing was a bit of a snark: only three times in history has a woman who wears corrective lenses appeared on the centerfold, and in each of the three cases she was inundated with fan mail from optometrists offering free contact lenses.
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Maybe the editor isn't attracted to women?
Date: 2006-12-15 06:41 am (UTC)It's been a while since I've picked up a Playboy, but if I remember the emphasis on fashion &c., I'd not be the least bit surprised.
Of course I've also recently noticed the apparent demographics of the customers of spammers. Apparently guys who wear high end wristwatches have small penises. Who knew?