The Playboy Forum

January, 1980

Foreign CustomsThis little exposition opens at your basic Istanbul airport, where, after a 7000-mile trek fraught with inconveniences and hassles, I wade once more through customs en route to yet another airline connection. The climax of this little drama takes place when my copy of Playboy is declared contraband by a sour-pussed agent of bureaucratic oppression and is consigned to the nearest waste container. Seething but not wanting any trouble from this officious jerk, I say nothing. A few mi...