Word: playboyism
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...square footage of exposed epidermis, the cover of this month's Playboy is hardly remarkable: a couple of bare arms and a single unholstered breast. But those appendages belong not to one comely lady but to two, and their embrace suggests something more than a hello. Inside are ten color pages of female couples in various stages of sapphic bliss. Has Playboy, the bible of macho heterosexuality, gone lesbian...
...exactly. The magazine has in the past run occasional shots of women fondling each other, and Playboy Publicist Lee Gottlieb says: "The experts tell me that two women making love to each other is a male turn-on." But Playboy's lesbian offensive is a new escalation in the war of the lower depths. Plump, expensively produced variants of Playboy are spreading like herpes sores, and enthusiasts can choose from an estimated 35 different titles. The big three -Playboy, Penthouse and Oui-alone sell some 10 million copies a month, double the circulation of the entire skin-magazine industry...
Gauzy Nodes. Father Rabbit Hugh Marston Hefner, who started Playboy in 1953, crossed the pubic-hair Rubicon three years ago, but only after goading by Bob Guccione, whose Penthouse first appeared in 1969 full of gauzy nudes with hirsute private parts. Since then, the two antagonists, as well as such panting competitors as Gallery, Genesis, Dude, Club, Game, Cavalier, Adam and Hustler, have been leaving less and less to the imagination. Playboy has expanded its Playmate of the Month spread from two or three pages to as many as nine. Penthouse routinely features male-female and female-female couples. Hefner...
...expeditious, off-angle characterization is his introduction of a character named Henke (Val Avery), who is being sought by various intelligence agencies so that he can be put on ice. Henke, a sour, anonymous-looking man lugging a brown paper bag of groceries and a fresh copy of Playboy, retrieves a rubber ball for a bunch of neighborhood kids. They ask him to give it back, and he looks, for a moment, uncertain. Then he throws the ball through the glass window of a nearby apartment, whose tenant rushes out and starts after the startled kids. Henke laughs...
...first reaction at CBS was a judicious silence. The second was to point out the errors, which Kidder Meade, vice president of corporate affairs, did in a five-page letter to the publisher, Playboy Press. Paley then elaborated with a personal list of 35 grievances...