Playboy jewelry: would you wear it?

In My Humble Opinion
1

I noticed today that a nearby store had a large display of jewelry with the Playboy rabbit head logo. Pendants, rings, earrings and whatever you call the curved barbels that go in bellybutton piercings (belly rings?).

For the most part, the Playboy logo jewelry was more expensive than the other stuff they had.

Since Playboy’s target audience is supposedly (horny) men, and a lot of this jewelry seemed made for women, I’m wondering:

Female dopers, would you wear Playboy jewelry? Would you pay the more expensive price for it? Does it matter where you wear it (ring vs bellybutton)? Would you wear it if, out of the blue, your significant other bought you a playboy jewelry item?

and, for all of the above: why?

2

No, nor would I wear anything with the Playboy logo on it, for the same reason I wouldn’t wear anything with a Nike logo on it. Why would I pay to become a walking billboard?

3

I wouldn’t wear it, and I’d be a bit miffed if my hubby bought it for me. For some reason, it makes me think “trashy.”

I’ve seen a lot of women wearing it, though. I once even saw a woman who had the Playboy bunny tattooed on the upper part of her breast.

4

Playboy jewelry is the ideal way for a woman to say to the world, “My man LOVES to masturbate!”

5

Some folks see it as a statement of, “My woman is as pretty as those folded girls with the joke page printed on the back.” I’ve never seen it that way. It also says, “Anyone with the cash to buy a magazine can see her nekkid.”

6

Women would wear them because it is an easy way to flirt and draw attention to yourself without really having to do anything…

it is like wearing a shirt that says “flirt” or something like that…

Guys will be drawn to that girl because they will be thinking that she likes porn…

I don’t think it is really a fashion statement or anything… it is more of a “I need a good F” statement.

7

When I was 5 my grandmother bought me a pair of Playboy bunny earrings. Upon opening the box and seeing the little pewter bunnies I looked up at her and asked in all seriousness why she would give me Playboy bunny earrings. She didn’t answer for a few moments and when she did she said, “Well, I thought they were cute little bunnies.” She had no idea. Everyone else, however, fell over laughing. I still have them and I used to wear them ironically in high school. Good conversation starter.

8

Not a chance…but I’ve seen a few playmates I’d like to try on for size.

<Rim Shot>

9

How 70s! I would wear one if I was going in “70s drag” to a party or something. It goes without saying that I don’t have the sort of body that would inspire a man to give me Playboy jewelry in any amount of seriousness.

(Loving the “cute little bunny” story! ROFL!)

10

I think thats one of those things that goes pretty much unsaid. Kind of like "My man LOVES to breathe!

11

What is the deal with all of the 16 yearold girls I see wearing this stuff, especialy the Playboy t-shirts.

12

I have a friend who wears a playboy bunny belly-button ring - I almost barfed when I saw it, thinking she wants men to like her for all the wrong reasons. Women think men get woodys when they see us portraying the bunny symbol, to me it is a sign of weakness on a woman’s part.

Ok ok, I know, I’m taking it too seriously…

13

I would never wear it.
to me, it reeks of “trashy”.

14

A family friend was, while visiting relatives in China, pressured to buy “this cute rabbit shirt” they found while shopping. She had a heck of a time trying to explain why a nice teenaged girl would not want to wear such a shirt to her school in America.

15

Heavens, no! That would be way too tacky to even consider.

16

Certainly not. ‘Trashy’ is indeed the word.

But I am getting a giggle out of the mental image of a newly-post-pregnant-pudgy mom schlepping two small children around and wearing the stuff.

17

16? I knew some 12 and 13 year olds who, when they went tanning, used the playboy bunny as a sticker. Let’s count what’s wrong with that scenario…

But yeah, it’s an “I’m cute enough to be a Playboy bunny thing”, for any teenager.

18

Blech. Tacky, trashy, and vulgar. I don’t want to be associated with folks who pose naked for money.

19

Um no…Ack! I would never wear anything like that. Tacky, tacky, tacky!!

I loved the “grandma giving the bunny ears as a present” story!!

20

I just bought my wife a Playboy belly button ring for Christmas. She wanted it, she likes it, and she’s not at all trashy. (Me, I’m a trashy little bitch, but that’s another story.) I had a female friend in grad school who loved wearing a shirt with the Playboy logo on it. My wife is a raging feminist, but she likes reading the magazine and thinks the bellybutton ring is cool.

A lot of women are curious about Playboy, in much the same way that I read Cosmo every chance I get. You want to see what messages are being broadcast to the other side, even if no one actually believes them. I think for women, wearing the logo is a way to advertise that they’re in the club, they know that guys want to look at naked women and they’re cool with it. (I’m speculating here – I’ll ask my wife why she likes the bellybutton ring next chance I get.) While I find the magazine itself sort of dumb, I think that’s a sexy attitude.