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Faced with returns of thousands of unsold newsstand copies, Playboy has now cut back its circulation guarantee from 5.4 million copies a month, to 4.5 million-exactly the same as its upstart rival Penthouse. (Hustler and Playboy's naughtier younger brother Oui are the other two top sellers.) Since with age and success Playboy has become the most "conservative" of the sex magazines, some might argue that its newsstand decline only proves Gresham's law. But this morality play isn't all that simple. It has more to do with society's shifting sexual standards...
...blue-collar angle to Hustler does, however, yield some interesting results. It is the only porn magazine which does not equate sex with money. Unlike Playboy, Penthouse, Oui and Gallery (the other four in the big five) the pictorials are not filled with feather-bedecked women waiting in expensively decorated apartments for well-dressed, well-tanned young men. Hustler accepts no liquor or cigarette advertising, the mainstays of men's magazines. Whether this is done for moral reasons or as a neat stratagem for future court cases is impossible to say, but the absence of Winston and Salem men fits...
Anyone with two cents worth of intelligence is going to wonder about Hite's methodology, an issue she has minimized in innumerable interviews. Most of the questionnaires were distributed through NOW, Oui, Mademoiselle, Ms. and The Village Voice--which obviously slants the sampling toward certain income levels, races and frames of mind. (I would bet no female Ford Motor Co. factory worker ever saw the questionnaires.) This is undeniably a flaw, but not of the magnitude that some reviews have made...
...find candidates for her survey, Hite advertised the availability of the questionnaire in feminist circles, church newsletters, the Village Voice and several magazines, including Oui, Brides and Mademoiselle. Though the respon dents are from 49 states, they tend to be liberal and Eastern...
Stephen said yesterday he does not know when the article will appear but is sure it will run since they were paid more than a $300 "consolation fee." That is just one more example of benefit of going to college. One certainly cannot write articles for Oui magazine in a monastery