(October 13, 2015 at 5:20 am)abaris Wrote: Not sure how they will fare. It's on the same lines as the Hustler or Penthouse suddenly deciding on serious journalism. There's certainly no shortage of lifestyle magazines on the market and I can't imagine Playboy being bought for that. To me, it seems, as if they're swapping a shrinking audience for a non existing one.
You'd be surprised. They've been doing things other than porn from the beginning. Christ, they published short stories by Chuck Palahniuk, Roald Dahl, Arthur C. Clarke, Richard Matheson, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, and P.G. Wodehouse, for crying out loud!
Honestly, they've always tried to have some level of class, and this is really just them going in a direction they've gone before.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.