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...VIVA AND Playgirl may be meant to encourage women to enjoy their sexuality, but as long as they are dominated by the masculine concept of pornography, they will not only be repellent but they will also be a fraud. Instead of aiding women's sexual "liberation," Viva and Playgirl take advantage of the "new woman" by feeding her the whole-male-domination fantasy of what sex for a woman should...
...trouble with women's magazines in the past is that they have been relentlessly one-dimensional, recognizing only a women's acceptable lighter side, refusing to acknowledge her sexuality, her anger and her tears. I'll be damned if Playgirl falls into that trap." But in fact Playgirl and Viva editors, writers, and photographers acknowledge a woman sexually only as ogled objects of men's lust rather than active reciprocal partners in sexual relationships...
Occassionally, however, the two magazines publish non-exploitative features. Both Viva's two-month series on venereal disease and Playgirl's January article on prostitution were provocative and informative. The current Viva's "Classic Nudes," a pictorial study of the male body, was a stunning example of what good pornography can be. Viva's love story is occasionally a sensitive exploration of a relationship between two people--as it was in the November issue--rather than a few obscene pictures of naked men and women in emotionless encounters...
SHORTCOMINGS and potential in one slick package, Playgirl has made publishing history by selling over two million copies in only six months. Obviously there are a lot of women out there interested in the soft core sex Viva and Playgirl have to offer...
...million women really need Playgirl or Viva to liberate their sexuality? For most people sex is a very private, discreet, personal experience. Not many of them would think of patterning their sex lives on the activities of the men and women in the two magazines. If women do need Viva and Playgirl, it is to bolster their sexual fantasies. Fantasy may heighten sex by making it more than a physical act. In that case, Playgirl and Viva are productive if they heighten a woman's enjoyment of her man's and her own sexual involvement. But most people's enjoyment...