Down the Rabbit Hole: The Surprising Tale of the Bunny Suit

The Atlantic ^ | 10/4/17 | Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

[DallasBiff]

From its first issue in 1953, Playboy’s publisher Hugh Hefner sought to distinguish it from the sleazy sex magazines stored under the newsstand counter and sold in brown paper bags. He once explained that he chose a rabbit as the magazine’s mascot “because of the humorous sexual connotation,” but dressed him in a tuxedo “to add the idea of sophistication.” The models may have been nude, but the articles were written by acclaimed authors like Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, and Vladimir Nabokov and covered highbrow topics including “Picasso, Nietzsche, [and] jazz,” to quote Hefner’s introductory editorial. Even JFK read it

[markman46]

yes, lots of bad things happen there or so its been said by people that worked there or were centerfolds, now that Hef is worm food

[Bigg Red]

Exactly why I clicked on this thread. (I am a woman, so I don’t care about the trashy females presented.)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL...you just KNEW you’d see that bunny suit!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“The girls in the bunny suits were waitresses in the Playboy Club.”

Good point. The crème de la crème got into the magazine and the best of those got invited to the mansion and parties.

[reasonisfaith]

But pornography in our country was not a widespread problem until the CIA decided to use it as a weapon against Americans in their scheme to destroy our country.