What I Learned From Playmates
Winter, 2019
A former playboy editor shares some of the wisdom he accrued over years of conversations with centerfold subjectsI started workIng at PLAYBOY magazine in 1973 at the age of 25. As the youngest editor, the low man on the totem pole, I inherited the job no one wanted: writing “girl copy”—the stories that accompany the Centerfolds. For a decade or so I interviewed the Playmates, meeting them for lunch or dinner in fancy restaurants, dark bars, beer gardens, tiny apartments, coffee shops—all expense...
