COVERING UP ALL THOSE BUNNY TAILS…
(…and their suggestive playmate fantasies…)

Hugh Heffner, the overlord of that plush-porn publication –Playboy – has just announced that henceforth the magazine will no longer provide “full Monte” views of its playmates of the month, and other female beauties displayed among its pages. Apparently his igniting of the sexual revolution of the 60’s has now come to bite into his bathrobe-clad leadership of it.

With the advent of the Web and all its related technologies…internet-porn…selfies…and other means of displaying nudity (in both “passive” and “live-action” formats) are making his magazine…irrelevant…along with Playboy Clubs, and the Playboy Mansion’s sybaritic lifestyle. Virtual reality has made it all…passé…shrinking its subscriber base to less than a million from its high multi-million level of past years.

It was inevitable, of course. In its time – Playboy – was the “disruptive” technology of the era, spawning a lot of sub-varieties of its genre, colloquially known as “haunch raunch”, such as…Hustler…Cavalier…and other lesser-known ones, now, mostly long forgotten; part of the let-it-all-hang-out revolution…sex…drugs…rock and roll…hipsters…swingers… all floating off in their wonderful balloons of uninhibited fantasies, and – Playboy – was the gold-plated erotic epitome of it all. In the process, of course, it objectified women as sex-objects, with the unintended consequence of creating completely distorted standards for what constitutes feminine attributes of desirability…many of which still lingering on today…and probably was the real cause for setting off what became known as – Women’s Lib – in reaction to that.

Well, time marches on, as they say, and things change, although we’re not so sure about that when it comes to the erotic, if not prurient, male interest in displays of female nudity. Apparently guys are just hard-wired for drooling over the female form divine…and women have always known how to manipulate that human male character trait as far back as Eve…with Adam…and, our late mother best explained it all for us this way: “You men may have more brains, but, since these are wired to the wrong end of your anatomies, we women don’t need…rights…to deal with that because we’ve got…wiles…which will always beat those brains of yours all to hell!.” She was a liberated and wise woman indeed.

As for Playboy magazine’s future, most have always said…they’ve always been into it more for its articles than anything else, so covering up all those bunny tails…and their suggestive playmate fantasies…will only enhance its continuing presence and subscriber base in our interconnected world of today.

CENTURION