Why She Hates Your Gifts
One of my closest friends considered dumping a guy who got her a fuzzy pink bathrobe for Christmas. She’s the nicest, most mellow person I know, but she never, ever wears pink. She’s not really into...
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PLAYBOY FICTION: GETTING MY BABY TANKED
Getting My Baby Tanked by Liesl Schillinger They had been on the gambling boat outside of Fort Lauderdale for two hours, and Carl had gone to order Greta a third margarita, which she didn’t want. She...
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You Are Where You Live
By Deborah Schoeneman Don’t judge me for it, but I had a Burning Man boyfriend. He wasn’t a yoga teacher, a dot-com millionaire or a homeless DJ. I had met him a few times before in a professional...
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PLAYBOY SOUTH AFRICA HITS 3 MILLION LIKES
PLAYBOY SOUTH AFRICA hit the 3 million mark on Facebook this week and had 381,501 People Talking About the brand at that stage. “And that without a single reference to either Oscar Pistorius, Dewani...
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Playboy South Africa Makes The Move To Digital
Playboy goes for full digital The May edition of Playboy SA is the first fully digital edition, signalling its final shift away from the era of print. The decision was made in July last year to drive...
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Game Over
Every time I see one of those amazing ads for Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto – more complex and otherworldly than any movie trailer – I wonder why I stopped playing video games. Then I remember:...
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Stop Picking On Vegetarians
I get why vegetarianism used to be unmanly. No one likes the Neanderthal who says, “It’s partly health, partly ethical. look, I don’t want to be the cave scold. you have your fun hunting woolly...
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Making Your Girlfriend A Sports Fanatic
I grew up in Texas but always hated sports. When I wanted to talk to boys, they were watching sports. When I wanted to talk to my dad, he was watching sports. When my debate team needed money for a...
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Bosom Buddies
ILLUSTRATION BY BENJAMIN MARRA It’s an age-old question, a query pondered by mere mortals long before Harry met Sally: Can men and women be friends? To that I respond with a resounding “Does Bear...
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Why We Love Zombies
Granted. They’re not pale-skinned shimmering vampires that have adolescent girls and middle-aged women worldwide swooning over the taboo fantasy of illicit, dark netherworld romance. But, Zombies...
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Is She Hot? Are You Rich?
I live in Los Angeles, which means most of my single guy friends think they should be dating a model or an actress, or someone who looks like a model or an actress. Who can blame them? The most...
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The War Against Sex: Hugh Hefner
The tyranny of the minority is alive and well and flourishing in our South African democracy; a democracy still so young that one might have thought people would remember what it was like to live...
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Wank And Live!
Almost half the population now knows that HIV and AIDS can be caused by randomly fucking around without a condom. A recent survey by the Human Sciences Research Council showed that the other half,...
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Breakfast In Bed May 2013
FOR A CHANGE OF PACE, WE INVITED RICH MULHOLLAND TO EXPLORE WHY SOUTH AFRICANS ARE SO SPORTS-BEFOK AND WHETHER THIS IS CHEMICAL OR CULTURAL, OR BOTH? I grew up in a city called Glasgow in Scotland...
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One of my closest friends considered dumping a guy who got her a fuzzy pink bathrobe for Christmas. She’s the nicest, most mellow person I know, but she never, ever wears pink. She’s not really into...
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Role Playing: Rich Mulholland
When I was 16 years old I discovered the wonderful world of fantasy role-playing – from damsels in distress and heroic elves to dungeons and dragons – role-playing was what I was doing while my peers...
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The Awkward Hug: Sarah Britten
Italians have a code. So do Greeks, Arabs, the French and the Cambodians. There, when you meet people, or say goodbye to them, you do it in a particular way. In some cultures, men kiss each other on...
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Forum: Man Up
The case against skinny jeans, exfoliating and being a “Duva”. I, Lisa Lampanelli, am a life-long fan of men. Ever since I was in my second year in high school and found myself wishing Peter Frampton...
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Enthusiastic Consent: Only Yes Means Yes
Note from the Editor: Seventeen year old Anene Booysen was brutally tortured, raped and murdered in February, and her death lead South Africans to do some serious introspection about the levels of...
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Alpha (fe)male
It’s a weekday morning. A routine plays itself out. Moisturising cream is applied prior to a flimsy pair of panties being slipped on – my favourite is the transparent black G-string. A lacy bra is...
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