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by Robert Quigley | 10:07 am, July 7th
The July issue of Playboy‘s Portuguese edition features an unexpected figure on the cover: None other than Jesus Christ, who frolics with three different nude women within the pages of the magazine.
The shock value of the cover and concept is undeniable: Believe it or not, though, it’s in the service of an ostensibly higher — even literary — purpose. Last month, Nobel literature laureate José Saramago died: A national hero in Portugal, he was the only Portuguese-language writer to win the Nobel literature prize.
Saramago was an atheist, and one of his most famous novels was titled The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo), depicting a flawed and human Jesus: You can see the book’s title engraved into the headboard of the bed on the Playboy cover. Because that’s where you’re looking, right? It’s in Saramago’s honor that this religiously and literarily laden (and unsurprisingly, rather controversial) Jesus-with-naked-ladies photoshoot took place.
Read on...by Robert Quigley | 9:31 am, February 23rd
After loads of speculation about Apple‘s sudden, sweeping ban of more than 5,000 sexually suggestive iPhone apps — ranging from pornography to pictures of women in bikinis — the company’s head of worldwide product marketing, Philip W. Schiller, has explained where Apple is coming from.
In an interview with the New York Times, Schiller says that complaints from “women who found the content getting too degrading and objectionable, as well as parents who were upset with what their kids were able to see” led Apple to institute its ban on sexually provocative iPhone apps.
Why, then, did Apple give racy Playboy and Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue apps free passes, even as they shut down an app from a swimwear vendor that featured women wearing the bikinis they were trying to sell?
Read on...by Robert Quigley | 8:52 am, February 1st
Comicrazys has curated a fantastic collection of cartoons from Gahan Wilson, Playboy‘s longtime cartoonist-in-chief. Wilson has been described as having a “genius for grotesquery,” a trait which is certainly on display in the melted slug-people and splayed-out dead elephants in his cartoons:
Read on...
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