Playboy without the Play

Just ask any guy and he’ll tell you that one of the most oft-repeated white lies is: “I read Playboy for the articles.”  I must say that I have read Playboy articles (from my brothers’ collection) and they’re very good.  One that stands out from memory is a short story — a “missing” chapter from Catch-22 — written by Joseph Heller which featured Yossarian up to no good, as usual.  I was telling my brother the other day that he has a copy of the last stapled issue, with the first Madonna nudes, taken back when she was a starving student in New York City.  The cover proclaimed “It’s a Keeper!” but noone among us took heed and as with all stapled magazines back then, the cover was the first to go.  

Anyway, I just learned that if an Indian national tells you he reads Playboy only for the articles, he’s not lying at all.