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A while back my vintage-dealing mother gave me an old issue of Playboy from 1972. Being curious, I finally read it cover-to-cover and found myself surprised at enjoying the content it provided. Based on this issue alone, I suppose that if I had been an American boomer in my prime, I would have had a subscription. It is quite remarkable how professional and packed to the rafters it is with content. The editorial team is just massive and it shows. The photography is great, the articles entertaining and the fiction contributions decent enough. It was great money for value too. At the time of publication, the magazine cost 1 usd, which adjusted for inflation is about 7,5 usd now. Not too much considering what you get.
Of course, Playboy, was a mainstream publication, it is steeped in this liberal ideology that caters to the mass of people who aspired to a comfortable bourgeois lifestyle that the American Dream represented. What I mean is that it had this off-putting 'luxe'-ness that connects it to awful modern day magazines like GQ. But I do get the impression that even working-class men read Playboy.
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