Playboy After Hours

July, 1999

Pharaoh FoulThanks to a report in the British journal Nature, people who are sick of getting dumped on professionally can take solace in history. According to a study on ancient Egyptian medicine and pharmacology, one of the more eminent positions on the pharaoh's staff of personal physicians was the Keeper of the Royal Rectum. Back then it meant you were a wizard with enemas. Today it means you're the legal counsel of some chief executive.Dial-A-LiePagers, beepers, cell phones. It's a wonderful...