Ansel, in my youth I gave a far amount of Playboy magazines a once over. To be honest, it wasn’t something I would go spend money on, but every kid gets exposed to it at some point in time.
Your observation may be right on target. I haven’t really checked Playboy out in quite a while.
When you get right down to it though, it’s always been a seedy magazine ripping off women for a buck. I will say though, it has been one of the classier magazines in the field, because there are others out there that make Playboy look like a church pamplet.
I’ve never dated any woman I would like to have seen expose themselves in Playboy. And if I don’t want my girl friend or wife exposed there, it’s just not right for me to want other women to be.
I’m not as big a prude as this makes me sound, but it strikes me that it objectifies women to the point that young men don’t see women for who they are as much as what they can get from them.
I think that leads to many an unsuccessful relationship, and in all too many instances, there are kids involved too.
As I got into my mid twenties I started seeing Playboy as kind of the “mama’s boy” magazine, it was like looking at your well built sister, there was something sterile and artificial about it. The woman didn’t seem to be the subject, it was almost as if us looking at the sterilized woman was the subject.