Made-Up Man

January / February, 2015

IS MALE VANITY ABOUT TO TAKE A BOLD NEW TURN? THE ANSWER MAY MAKE YOU BLUSH The second time I ever met my playboy editor over lunch he kept telling me how young I looked. It was deeply creepy—creepier even than his suggestion that I write a long article in which I get trained to perform a bris, or, as he pitched the story in a follow-up e-mail, 'Joel adrift in a sea of tiny penises." Then I remembered: I was wearing makeup. I had come from an appearance on CNN and they'd run out of wipes, s...