Female Chauvinist Pigs, Part One

It no longer makes sense to blame men. There are plenty of women behind the scenes, not just in front of the cameras, making decisions, making money, and hollering 'We want boobs.' Playboy is a case in point. Playboy's image has everything to do with its pajama-clad, septuagenarian, babe-magnet founder, Hugh Hefner, and the surreal world of celebrities, multiple 'girlfriends,' and nonstop bikini parties he's set up around himself.

But in actuality, Playboy is a company largely run by women. Hefner's daughter Christie is the chairman and CEO of Playboy Enterprises. The CFO is a middle-aged mother named Linda Havard. The Playboy Foundation (which has supported the ERA and abortion rights, among other progressive causes) is run by Cleo Wilson, an African-American former civil rights activist. A woman named Marilyn Grabowski produces more than half the magazine's photo features.
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Women Should Cross Party Lines To Combat Porn

This week, Playboy is in Athens, recruiting female students to get naked for a feature on girls of the top 10 party schools. And Ohio University's right wing has little to say about it. When you consider the social agenda of most conservatives, it doesn't make sense. The sexual free-for-all evoked in Playboy magazine, topless bars and pornography runs directly contrary to the traditional values conservatives uphold. And yet conservative women won't touch the issue with a ten-foot stripper's pole.
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Girls Smile Coyly With Playboy In Town

My son and I took a trip to southern Indiana last week. We hiked around Brown County State Park. It was a typical autumn day, “under the blue-gray October sky” that sportswriter Grantland Rice immortalized in his news dispatch of the Notre Dame-Army game in 1924.

We went on to Bloomington to visit Indiana University. My son is in high school and enjoys touring colleges. There’s no better place to be than a campus in fall. The well-worn paths leading to buildings of higher learning were filled with students carrying backpacks and talking on cell phones about the rigors of academia and tests taken.
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Polish IPTV ties with Playboy

Poland's maiden internet television service has chosen Playboy TV as its first flagship channel in a bid to woo subscribers.

Aster, a local cable TV and telecommunications provider, is rolling out a pilot IPTV service in Warsaw and surrounding areas using its existing network infrastructure.

The company, which already supplies cable TV to 280,000 subscribers, with 33,000 DTV and 65,000 internet users, hopes that the Playboy brand will tempt customers to try out the new IPTV service.

The channel will be available to monthly subscribers in Warsaw and surrounding areas for customers of Aster's TwojDom, TwojSwiat and TwojaFirma internet tiers.
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