Ken, i know exactly how it works, i just think the story line is stupid. If my girlfriend was offered to do porn i would freak, i think alot of people would feel tat way.
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Someguy, Playboy & porn are two completely different things!! Just because Maria is going to appear naked in a magazine does not make it porn!!
Playboy & the WWE have been partners for many years, the issues with a WWE Diva in it sell like crazy, that is good for the WWE & Playboy as well!!
thanks Icey
Someguy there is nothing pornographic about a naked female body
If my girlfriend or wife was offered to pose I would think about two things
the money 
and damn my woman is fine.
I told my wife again tonight how proud I was to be married to a beautiful woman she is damn near 60 and gorgeous there should be a law but I have always been fortunate like that.
Someguy I do not know if you need to grow up or loose the bible
Your choice
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well im sorry if it makes me immature to think that my girlfriends body is for my eyes only, just like mine is for her eyes only. ok im just gona be a jerk about this but there is no way on heaven or earth that you will be able to convince me that playboy is not porn
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So if you get aroused looking at pictures of the naked body of your partner, is it porn? If someone else looks at the same picture and gets aroused does that make it porn?
Do you know the mind of the people at Playboy to know their intent?
Is the David, or any of the other “classic” nudes,porn? How do you know they weren’t commissioned for sexual arousal?
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OK, was there some reason you ignored my other questions?
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The weren’t pointless, they led directly to the matter. You just don’t want to have to come up with weird justifications to fit your narrow viewpoint.
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Interestingly enough, the items you are talking about are articles, not photos.
“Rub her right,” an article on erotic massage for your partner, no pictures involved.
COLLEGE SEX:… is partially an interview with the editor of “boink: College Sex by the People Having It” and partially a guide on how to pick up women based upon what the editor has found out over two years of running her magazine.
You left off the other articles, like 20Q with Charles Barkley, an interview with Gary Kasparov, the interviews done with Fidel Castro, an article on the clergyman that is encouraging his flock to have sex.
I’m curious where you saw the quote from Christie Hefner, the ONLY spot on the web was in a forum http://www.thecentralword.com/forums/showpost.php?p=193877&postcount=38 . Others have used the first half of the quote, and based upon that some of the stories on this site qualify as porn.
As for the rest of my questions, you just can’t answer them without resorting to absurd justifications for your closed minded bigotry.
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Val, if your partner takes a sexual photo of them self specifically for you, that would be ok because the argument is that the naked form is for your partner and no one else. Now if you go showing it to people, i don’t know if that is classed as porn but it is certainly immoral.
Now as for works of art such as David, I don’t see that as pron because the statue is not seductive, its the human form. Basically its a guy standing around who lost his pants, hes not erect or in any sort of sexual position. I’m not an expert on what makes porn but i don’t think those pieces of art are, i could be wrong tho.
Now i know playboy is “Artistic” But the models posing are still posing in seductive positions, its not about appreciating the human form, its always gona be about sexual stimulation.
Playboy is a mens magazine, and so they do have a vast range of articles, to boost sales. But they still have the articles such as “COLLEGE SEX! Everything a guy needs to know about getting lucky on campus!”. You cant say that you would ind such an article in a poltical magazine, or a financial one.
Granted Playboy is not the smuttiest porno, its still porno
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What an interesting topic…
I would say yes, that playboy is “porn” in its photographic element by some definitions, but that the stigma attached to porn is almost crazy. Pornograhy in itself is not necessarily a bad thing, in my eye (though I do not lend my money to it) and it’s whoever (provided they are adult) wishes to view it’s right to do so, as the law currently (and, in my eye, rightly) stands.
It also has some good articles. Personally, though, I can’t get past the pictures, which I find to be… usually distasteful, to read them.
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personally, i could care less if it is porn or not. the women are hot and i enjoy looking at them and reading the articles(seriously, some of the articles are really good). i can tell you for a fact that Playboy is better than Hustler or Penthouse, which contain 10 times are many pics of nude women.
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I think Playboy is pretty much porn.
As for my girlfriend posing in it, I could understand it, but I doubt I’d like it.
Depending on her job I could see how it was part and parcel of it: if you have a celebrity wife you hardly have her to yourself anyway. The point is that I - like most people - am slightly jealous and feel possessive about my partner. That possessiveness is part of a relationship. Of course it can go too far, but it’s natural to want something all to yourself.
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As far as Playboy being pornography goes, I think that’s largely in the eye of the beholder, but there’s a valid argument to be made. I will, however, say that the magazine is (or at least used to be) incredibly literary and intelligent. And yes, Vickie, you CAN read it for the articles! Don’t forget that they have what is generally considered the best interview with Jimmy Carter on record. In addition (and this is my favorite), Tim O’Brien first published “The Things They Carried” as a short story in Playboy. If it’s good enough for Tim O’Brien, I have a hard time faulting its literary quality.
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Vickie, were I to buy Playboy, I would just for the articles. The pictures would do nothing for me, so I would not buy it for that.
BTW, the discussion was whether pictures were for public or private.
As I said about the Hefner quote, I did a Google search and only came up with one hit, I hadn’t found it on the Playboy site. So no I don’t feel silly.
Those stories in themselves are not for sexual stimulation. Using what is in them may lead to sexual stimulation, but the articles themselves are not for sexual stimulation.
It is convenient to not have to answer questions because you DON’T want to.
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I think it’s porn but I found it was the kind of porn I could tolerate. Non of that hard core stuff. I have only viewed one issue of it of course from 1992.
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I should clarify that though it’s porn, I have no problem with this whatsoever.
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Playboy contains pornographic as well as non-pornographic content. The argument for labelling the whole magazine pornography stems from the belief that more people buy it to look at the photos rather than read the articles. But in all fairness, I don’t know if there’s any way to verify that.
It’s also been noted that the pornographic content is no more (and possibly less) revealing than many artistic depictions of the human body. This is true, but the art/pornography distinction can be found in the creator’s intent. Given that several of the more revealing Renaissance paintings were created at the behest of the Catholic Church, it’s a safe bet they were not concieved as pornography.
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The reason you can call Playboy pornographic is because the magazine (admittedly with mixed contents) is provided as a SINGLE PACKAGE. This is what’s judged.
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For the most part, pornography is regarded as obscene writings, drawing, photographs, etc. with little to no artistic merit. That’s a pretty hard definition to go by because of the conceptual art movements of the 60s. Pretty much anything can have artistic merit.
That may be why U.S is actually pretty liberal with the definition. If you go to Canada however, you’ll find many movies and video-games that are considered porn that are simply rated R in the states.
In Canada, porn is anything that stresses obscene content over plot, like a video game where you just try and kill as many people in as horrible a way as possible instead of following a story of some kind.
Personally I’m pretty torn on it. If it’s porn, it’s definately soft core.
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You just brought this up yourself, but you used two terms that are very hard to define in this context: “obscene,” and “artistic merit.” What is obscene? What gives a piece of work artistic merit? Is it objective, subjective, dependent on context, or completely in the eye of the beholder?
I’m not saying I have any really good answers to those questions, but the definition is a little vague.