Did they say Earl Warren or Warren Burger? (The latter might make more sense)
Anyhow, thanks for the clarification.
I don’t know if I’d be happy or completely freaked out if my mom had offered to provide me with fapping material back when I was a teen.
I’m thinking completely freaked out.
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If you renew the subscription it is much more expensive. Better to let it lapse and get a new subscription using one of their specials, which is indeed about $11 at least as of last year.
So would I. For me, it would be like if at my 12th birthday my parents gave me a Velvet Underground album and told me this was a band they thought I should be listening to. I’d be too weirded out to enjoy it.
I’m pretty sure this is part of OpalCat’s devious plan.
They said Earl Warren.
“Do you want your son to be a stripper or a Supreme Court Judge?”
“Can’t he be both, like the late Earl Warren?”
To be fair, Warren Burger was mentioned in the episode, as well. The idea of Bart eventually becoming Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (though in reality the title is Chief Justice of the United States) was kicked around quite a bit. At one point Homer says “What great men he would join. John Marshall, Charles Evans Hughes, Warren Burger… Mmmmmmm… Burger…”
They’re “special editions” not “special issues”. They’re not considered to be issues of the magazine. But they are still published on a regular basis - I think Playboy puts out about twenty or thirty of these every year. For those who haven’t seen them, they’re basically a bound collection of standard Playboy pictures - a magazine without any of the words as it were.
Is there any reason why Hefner never really moved into the hard-core adult film market? Was he always living in a 1950s mode of what he thought a swinger was: well furnished home, pipe silk pajamas, cocktail ? Show some nudity but “we have legitimate articles too!”? Or were there mob guys who told him “stay where you are: the hard core stuff is ours. Move in and you’ll wake up with a bunny’s head in your bed”?
I happened to meet one of their editors recently. He was happy when I told him I still had a subscription. But crest fallen when I said I seldom read it…“just not really interesting anymore” was the best I could come up with.
It’s my understanding the Hugh often has a bunny’s head in his lap…
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But do you still read them for the articles?
I think a lot of magazines are loss leaders/advertising vehicles. I got a 1-year subscription to Men’s Journal for Christmas 6 or 7 years ago. I’ve never renewed, but I still get it. Great magazine, incidentally.
You should let it lapse. I regularly get offers for a year’s worth for $12, and this has been going on for a decade or more. Once in a blue…moon, I bite. It’s no scam.
My first Playboy subscription was as a teenager, when my hip uncle gave me a sub, much against my mother’s wishes.
My gay uncle, no less. :rolleyes:
You should only be freaked out if she offered to show you techniques! 
Why exactly? Why is one okay but not the other? I have a very hard time understanding that. If anything, Playboy encourages a very “fake” looking concept of a woman, highly made-up, airbrushed, etc. He’s not going to see any woman in that magazine that even remotely resembles the girls who are his peers.
I have a collection of vintage (60s and 70s) Playboys; I read them for the advertising. There is NO better treasure trove of vintage advertising than this magazine. This stuff is the real Mad Men.
As far as I have seen for quite some time, and admittedly, I do not buy it (but I had it for many years ending about 8 years ago), Playboy has been reduced to nothing more than the same damned Plastic Blondes over and over since about the time I quit getting it.
The only reason I could see giving it to my teenaged son would be as a warning.
See this? You don’t want this. They may look good in some respects, but go out and look at real women. Look at the girls your age. They’re 10 times better than this shit.
FWIW, the women in Playboy are generally presented in a more “Wholesome” and “Nice” way than what you’re likely to find on a nekkid interwebs site. The Playboy girls aren’t (at least from what I’ve seen when I used to read it) shown to engage in activities bukkake or fisting or other such things that 18 year olds wouldn’t normally be aspiring to try without having gotten the idea from somewhere else.
And as has been said, there’s really nothing in Playboy now that’s especially titillating, and at least in this part of the world there are several “Titty mags” which are (legally) available to anyone over the age of 15 and they’ve got a very different tone to Playboy- very much “Lad’s Mags” but with more norks, basically. But the overall tone of Playboy is much higher than a lad’s mag, and the articles really can be very interesting.
Agreed. Old National Geographics are good for that sort of thing too… They’re a fascinating read in their own right, never mind the pictorials on countries which no longer exist or have changed beyond all recognition since the magazine was published.
You’re just paying for the postage and paper. A $1 a month is probably break even for that which is all they really need. They pay the staff, models and creative teams from advertising and just advertising. Subscription prices are largely meaningless.
That deal seems a little low, but not extremely. I’ve had a subscription for years and they generally try and hook you with an initial offer of $24.95 a year or $29.95 for 2 years, give or take. When your period ends they send you a notice with a offer to re-up for $19.95. Then they send you a second notice for $17.95, then a final notice for $14.95. I think I’ve seen “we miss you” letters for like $12.95 when I let the subscription lapse, but that’s the lowest.
Cachet. For everyone involved. Playboy sells “luxury and leisure”. What’s more luxurious than unattainable celebs shedding their clothes for exorbitant amounts of money. Granted the suspension of disbelief was easier when it was Marilyn Monroe, Cindy Crawford and Elle MacPherson doing the posing as opposed to Darva Konger and J-Woww but the logic is still the same.
In Hollywood there are 3 things everyone lies about: Salaries, Profits and Ages.
Playboy is Hollywood and it benefits everyone involved that the lies are believed.
I only ever see them bundled with subscriptions as a “special offer” like the Sports illustrated hoodie/yearbook/football for each Championship team. I haven’t been in a porn store since college and I don’t think they sell many of them at the newsstands when there’s Hustler and Penthouse next to them.
Hef has never seen himself as a “pornographer” and he’s been very hesitant to dive into the hard core stuff. It’s almost certainly a savvy business decision because Hustler and Penthouse are doing even worse than Playboy is. Playboy sells something that’s still somewhat unique and mostly unavailable on the internet. You can get the nude pictures, but you can’t get the whole packaged “lifestyle”.
Hef’s biggest mistake wasn’t not going hardcore, his mistake was not innovating. When Playboy was king it defined what was sexy and what was cool. It’s hard to stay on the vanguard of “cool” but they could have kept defining what was sexy. Instead Hef got old and a little nostalgic and stopped evolving at some point, the styles and the girls all seemed to get trapped in suspended animation right about when Hef became a married father, he was left pining for what was new and hot right before he settled down and the girls and styles pretty much stayed there as his life moved on. Hef’s mid-life crisis is pretty much spelled out in the magazine’s pages.
Had Hef gotten on board the Girls Gone Wild style of girl and photo Playboy would be in a different place. The bleach blonde fake boobs combo was interesting in 1990, not so much in 2010. If playboy was uncovering new age pinups: Emo girls, Goths, Co-Eds, Club Girls, Asians etc; they might be no longer considered a retro or ironic or whatever. Going hardcore would have made them more derivative, not less.
This is one way that Maxim has hurt Playboy’s profits. The kind of women who would have been posing naked in Playboy twenty or thirty years ago now pose in lingerie in Maxim.
Why would that be weird? I got a lot of CDs from my parents when I was first listening to music. I think when I first got into the Velvet Underground (not at age 12, at college), I took their best of album to put onto my iTunes.