My husband reads Playboy.
I have no problem with that and I usually read some of it, too. The articles are interesting. ;-)
I have watched the magazine change over the decades I have been involved with my guy. How it was in the beginning and how it changed when he got married to his wife, Kimberly and how he came out the other side, as this old swinger, with multiple girlfriends, all with white blond hair. (What's the deal with that, she asks innocently?)
During his marriage, he fathered 2 boys, Marston and Cooper. Marston was born April 1990 (6 months before my son) and Cooper, September 1991. So they sit right there with my son, in age and coming to manhood right now.
Playboy did a 20 questions with them in their January 2009 issue and I found it fascinating to delve into their minds. Seeing how much alike they are to my son and his friends.
My favorite question was when the interviewer asked them what pranks they pulled as kids. They go on to explain that they would bring some friends over to the Mansion during a party, dress up in camouflage or black and all carry walkie talkies and basically execute an OP. They go on to explain that they KNOW where all the security cameras are, so they were successful in their missions. This so much reminds me of my son and his friends and I laughed out loud, to hear that they were being raised so normal.
Another comment I found of interest was that they, for years, would have a Thursday Family night with just the 4 of them. Playing board games like "Sorry" and watching TV and just hanging out together. The kids were the ones who finally thought it was not cool to hang with their parental units and instead would go out with friends. Now they look back from their lofty ages of 18 and 17 and realize that they should not have done that. The nights they missed are lost forever to them.
They also mention that they have a real problem going to the library at the Mansion, because Hef has a picture of their mother hanging above the TV set in that room. Just a bit too much for these kids, who really seem to have their heads on straight.
I wish them all the luck in the world and hope they manage to flourish, in spite of their very unconventional lives.
Oh and I learned that if I ever was invited to the Mansion, not to swim at the Grotto... Eeeeewwwweee.
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Photo is from
Playboy and is
deliberately
fuzzy.
Marston on the
left, Cooper
in the chair
on the right.
Somehow I would have thought that these boys were raised to lie on sofas and n*ked women dropped grapes into their mouths!
ReplyDeleteRe: Library photo. Someone very close to me who shall remain nameless has a "boudoir" photo of their wife hanging in a prominent place in their home where their kids and guests see it. I was shocked and apalled when I first saw it on display and have gone into "simmer" mode about it over the years.
Some boundaries shouldn't be crossed. Yes, the human body is beautiful, yes, sex is a healthy, natural part of life, but teenaged boys do not need to have their mother's sexuality thrust into their faces and those of their friends. It's just plain wrong, no matter how you slice it!
My son has a ROTC (female) friend, who's Mom has that same kind of beautifully shot photograph, hanging in her bedroom. I was also slightly shocked, when I saw it, but she felt that the children should grow up seeing that sexuality was normal.
ReplyDeleteDifferent strokes for different folks, I guess.
Thanks for backing me up. I thought I was a prude. :-)
Gotcher back! I know I am more, um...conservative...if not prudish than I used to be. I also know that Americans are more uptight about bodies and sex than other countries. But this is who I am and this is where I live, so that's what I think!
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