Playlinguist, “The Magazine of Full-Frontal Grammar”, has now been revamped as Parts of Speech, a lifestyle magazine for trendy metrolinguals, as you can see in today’s Bizarro:
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Just to remind you:
Playboy is an American men’s lifestyle and entertainment magazine. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner’s mother. Notable for its centerfolds of nude and semi-nude models (Playmates), Playboy played an important role in the sexual revolution and remains one of the world’s best-known brands, having grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with a presence in nearly every medium.
… After a year-long removal of most nude photos in Playboy magazine, the March-April 2017 issue brought back nudity. (Wikipedia link)
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Meanwhile, Parts of Speech will continue Playlinguist‘s centerfold displays of bare verb stems, with even more hot stuff for your pleasure. Coming soon: a regular column on Russian hard consonants (no more soft consonants for us!). Plus an advice column — in the next issue, the skinny on pharyngeals, “Deep-Throating 101”.
And then there’s Playgirl:
Playgirl is an American magazine that features general interest articles, lifestyle and celebrity news, in addition to semi-nude or fully nude men. In the 1970s and 1980s the magazine printed monthly and was marketed mainly to women, although, as the magazine knew, it had a significant gay male readership, in a period in which gay male erotic magazines were few.
The magazine was founded in 1973 by Douglas Lambert during the height of the feminist movement as a response to erotic men’s magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse that featured similar photos of women.
… The last print issue to date was for Winter 2016. As of 2016 the magazine was believed to have had only approximately 3,000 subscribers. [It now seems to be defunct.] (Wikipedia link)
Well, these days you can get all the steamy photos of naked men you want, all types, soft and hard. Though if you want high-quality photos of full-frontal male celebrities, you might regret the passing of Playgirl.
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