The World According....To Playboy?

[Nathan Poe]

It was a long time ago, but if you're saying Playboy doesn't publish written erotica...well, that's just unlikely.

You didn't say erotica before, you said pornography. I ask again -- which issue published pornographic fiction?

 

[WhoeverLovesGod01]

Are you kidding me? How precisely do you want it defined? Any stories of explicit sexual nature are both erotic and pornographic at the same time.

 

[PassionFruit]

I don't know, pornography and erotica aren't exactly the same. There is a distinction.

 

[Nathan Poe]

Are you kidding me? How precisely do you want it defined? Any stories of explicit sexual nature are both erotic and pornographic at the same time.

Nonsense. Erotica is a literary term, pornography is a legal one. Learn the difference.

 

[RealityCheck]

Are we talking about short stories of a sexual nature here?

Anyway, I think you can find a much better collection of short stories in say - a library - than you can in Playboy magazine.

And many of those collections have short stories that originally appeared in Playboy.

 

[RealityCheck]

It was a long time ago, but if you're saying Playboy doesn't publish written erotica...well, that's just unlikely.

I wouldn't say they never do but that isn't the main focus of their fiction publication.

And of course, this whole tangent on their fiction section is ignoring everything else they publish - political and/or social commentary, articles on new technology, feature articles on current events and issues...

 

[BigNorsk]

I think people have missed the main point of Playboy. It is hedonism. Now that is nothing new, but what is relatively new is that by giving people glimpses of his hedonistic life that they will actually pay for it and support Hefner in his lifestyle.

Isn't it amazing that people will send him money month after month to be able to pretend and fantasize that they have what he has?

It's like the proverbial steam from the pot, only instead of forbidden people from having the steam, he charges them and they line up and pay.

Marv

 

[Steezie]

I think people have missed the main point of Playboy. It is hedonism. Now that is nothing new, but what is relatively new is that by giving people glimpses of his hedonistic life that they will actually pay for it and support Hefner in his lifestyle.

Isn't it amazing that people will send him money month after month to be able to pretend and fantasize that they have what he has?

It's like the proverbial steam from the pot, only instead of forbidden people from having the steam, he charges them and they line up and pay.

Marv

So?

 

[Nathan Poe]

I think people have missed the main point of Playboy. It is hedonism. Now that is nothing new, but what is relatively new is that by giving people glimpses of his hedonistic life that they will actually pay for it and support Hefner in his lifestyle.

Except that the magazine came before Hef had the lifestyle.

Isn't it amazing that people will send him money month after month to be able to pretend and fantasize that they have what he has?

Hef starts a magazine promoting a fantasy life. The magazine is such a success that Hef becomes rich enough to make that fantasy a reality.

There's a phrase that best describes this scenario; I believe it's "the American Dream."

 

[Argent]

I don't know, pornography and erotica aren't exactly the same. There is a distinction.

I'm inclined to agree. My wife and I used to read erotic fiction to each other, none of which either of us would have considered pornographic, and we were both very sensitive to the issue.

May I suggest at book: Grushenka, three times a
woman.

It was one of the few pre-revolution books not surpressed by the Soviets because of its depiction of the lives of serfs at the hands of the Russian nobility. It's explicit, but never vulgar. It's pretty erotic to have read to you.

There's a Russian woman poet who's poetry used to appear on the subway here in NYC in the "Poetry Underground" program. I haven't seen it in a couple of years, but she describes the footsteps of her and her lover crunching in the snow as they walked to her house, and in the rest of the short poem it was very clear what was going to happen when they got there, although it was never stated explicitly. Very, very erotic.

 

[Nathan Poe]

I'm inclined to agree. My wife and I used to read erotic fiction to each other, none of which either of us would have considered pornographic, and we were both very sensitive to the issue.

May I suggest at book: Grushenka, three times a
woman.

It was one of the few pre-revolution books not surpressed by the Soviets because of its depiction of the lives of serfs at the hands of the Russian nobility. It's explicit, but never vulgar. It's pretty erotic to have read to you.

There's a Russian woman poet who's poetry used to appear on the subway here in NYC in the "Poetry Underground" program. I haven't seen it in a couple of years, but she describes the footsteps of her and her lover crunching in the snow as they walked to her house, and in the rest of the short poem it was very clear what was going to happen when they got there, although it was never stated explicitly. Very, very erotic.

Sounds hot.