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Playboy Launches Safe For Work Website
If you're one of the three people in the world who actually reads Playboy for the articles, today is your lucky day. Every young boy's favorite magazine to find in their uncle's closet has launched a "safe for work" website. From the article: "TheSmokingJacket.com will contain none of the nudity that makes Playboy.com NSFW — not suitable for work. Instead, it'll rely on humor to reach Playboy's target audience, men 25 to 34 years old, when they are most likely to be in front of a computer screen."
Er, what is the point? Oh that's right - everyone *reads* Playboy for the humor and interesting articles... (rolls eyes)
Is there really any other reason to read it? I'm not being facetious: Playboy has neither the monopoly on nor is the best source of pictures of naked women.
So they know as much about technology as they do about what makes women attractive. (The Playboy answer: tattoos, a shaved gash, breast implants and lots and lots of Photoshopping)
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I can't imagine it's any less safe for work than Cosmo or the litany of other websites for women's magazines you see at the grocery checkout counter. Of course, it's more HR/socially acceptable to objectify men than women.
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No really I have no idea what Playboy is. But if you're looking for some good articles, subscribe to Asimov's Science Fiction.
FYI, Asimov had several stories published in Playboy - "Fire zone emerald", "The All-consuming", "Pizza man", "Sparring partner", and a few others.
Playboy also rejected the Asimov story "Stay, Oh fleeting moment" (which apparently remained unpublished), and Asimov wrote a satire on Playboy called "What is this thing called love".
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire