Secret Santa
Vintage Adult Magazines
8th November, 2021
This definitely isn’t a universal gift and is tough to find, but a vintage Playboy magazine is an excellent gift for the right person. For a start, there’s no way they own it already.
But mostly it’s a time capsule: the topics, the photography, the design, the adverts. The adverts! Reel-to-reel tape players, cigarettes, clock radios. And the quality of the writing might surprise you - the canard “I buy it for the articles” is rooted in truth. Just look at the list of contributors: Truman Capote, Philip K Dick, Dick Gregory, and Henry Miller. When you think “Playboy”, you probably don’t think “First person accounts of life in Iran”… but here we are.