The Playboy Forum

September, 1980

Say "Ahhh"I have been in Japan for six months as a medical advisor in anesthesia for Mitoyo General Hospital on the island of Shikoku.I had heard about Japan's strict censorship policies and was surprised to see a copy of Playboy in our doctors' lounge. Any suggestion of pubic hair was carefully blacked out. I wondered who had that job. I found out since that, in Japan, a "dirty old man" is one with a black tongue from licking off the censored areas.Nancy G. Thomson, M.D., Mi...