In its very first year, in 1953, it had carried Ray Bradbury’s classic sci-fi novel Fahrenheit 451. Playboy, despite the notoriety of its candy-box nudes and sexism, became arguably one of the leading magazines in its time. Then, coming to the end of the magazine, I casually put it aside and changed the subject.īut when I went back to school I bragged to my classmates that I had actually seen a copy of Playboy, and when they pestered me for details, I answered as best as I could, liberally using my imagination to fill in for everything that my memory was unable to supply. I was too embarrassed to look at the photographs, and flicked through the pages with a fake, slightly bored, expression, pausing occasionally to chuckle at the cartoons. I was thirteen, and an older friend showed me a copy. I still remember the very first copy of Playboy I ever saw.
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