Vintage playboy magazines

[oicdn]

I've always like Playboy for the articles. Gay as that is, the articles really are GOOD and some of them are damn funny.

And I don't know how many of you have actually picked up a Playboy, but there's only like 10-15 pages of women anyways...so it's not quite the best magazine for...errhmm....

The whole naked chicks aside, Maxim is a more risque magazine than Playboy if you're going based strictly on articles.

[synaesthetic]

I think my dad has almost every Playboy issue from the sixties onward, and a ton of photobooks full of nudes. I used to be awed at the sheer size of his nudie book collection, until I got older and realized that professional photographers might want to appreciate the work of other professional photographers.

[skullguise]

My dad used to have old Playboy mags, I remember sneaking looks at them when I was younger. I loved the differences in looks between women then and now.

For me, though, the most interesting reads were fiction from Hustler magazine. My brother used to have them, and aside from the more sleazy (looking) women, they had some REAL funky stories. Two that I realize I still remember to this day (perhaps 30+ years later):

* Car repair guy, who lays just about any woman who comes in, meets this gourgeous woman and starts with her. After trying various things with her still clothed, he finally gets her naked, only to realize she is a hermaphrodite. "She" laughs at his surprise, and then is then surprised herself when he removes his (always-on) sunglasses to reveal his eye have vertical slits like cats' eyes, and they look like vaginas....

* The story about people who die in this haunted hotel room at an inn by the sea; all reportedly had sea water in their lungs. A reporter, hell bent on getting the detail behind the story of a supposed ghost woman who lost her husband at sea and killed her self by jumping off the cliff, stays in the infamous room. He finds the room starts filling up with water, and the ghost woman comes to make love and be satisifed once again. However, he is prepared, and puts on his scuba gear and large metal d*ldo. She makes ghostly love to him, ALMOST drowning him as she tries to kiss him. And, being the only time she has been satisfied since her beloved was lost, she goes to the proverbial light, and the room is haunted no more.....

Wow....too much Didn't realize JUST how much I remembered these stories until today. Thanks for the reminder....

[Uncle Erik]

Originally Posted by M0T0XGUY

Vintage it ain't, but one issue I have from '93 lists the Sennheiser Orpheus as a recommended "luxury" product for "discerning listeners." I was dumbfounded to say the least.

Playboy used to cover audio gear regularly. I believe they published a guide to stereo gear in the early 1980s, as well.

If you're interested in jazz, this book is very good:

Amazon.com: The Playboy Guide to Jazz: Neil Tesser: Books

I came across a copy in a music store about a year ago. It's been very helpful in building a jazz collection.

[Spareribs]

I don't like Maxim magazine because it's a little too gimicky and lacks the style and elegance as the old Playboy. The old Playboy was for the sophisticated man who enjoyed his martini at 6 o'clock.

[ingwe]

Damn...the pixels are sticking together... :/

[recstar24]

Originally Posted by skullguise

My dad used to have old Playboy mags, I remember sneaking looks at them when I was younger. I loved the differences in looks between women then and now.

To go along with that, and not necessarily attached to Playboy, but I just find the women back then to be way more attractive than the majority of the celebrities nowadays. They looked more genuine, more true, if that makes sense. I also liked how it was okay to be somewhat curvy.

[dj_mocok]

Originally Posted by Spareribs

I don't like Maxim magazine because it's a little too gimicky and lacks the style and elegance as the old Playboy. The old Playboy was for the sophisticated man who enjoyed his martini at 6 o'clock.

I thought real sophisticated man who enjoys his martini at 6 is more likely to have real classy woman as a companion instead of reading a nude magazine at 6 o'clock?

[synaesthetic]

Originally Posted by recstar24

To go along with that, and not necessarily attached to Playboy, but I just find the women back then to be way more attractive than the majority of the celebrities nowadays. They looked more genuine, more true, if that makes sense. I also liked how it was okay to be somewhat curvy.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. Every time I see X celebrity or Y model I'm struck by how utterly fake and made-of-plastic they look. I may not wear a size 0 pair of jeans like those stick figures but at least I don't blow over in a stiff wind...

[elrod-tom]

Funny story:

When I was a young man, we bought a cottage in northern Michigan. When we were cleaning it out one spring, my brother and I found a huge hidden stash of Playboy magazines.

Well, you can imagine our surprise when we discovered that our COUSIN was a Playmate of the Month in 1978!!