Not For Your Eyes Only
Why shouldn't there be a Playboy in Braille? Most people read it for the articles, anyway. Right?
Does anyone still read it?
Apparently Brian Sack of Banterist. The New York blogger found a copy in an abandoned building, and experienced the sort of dislocation, he writes, one would get from having Courtney Cox fix your stove.
It's normal to not want Playboy in Braille to exist. Because it's weird. It raises too many questions ... How do you explain a naked woman to a pubescent, visually impaired teen?
I have a sense that you don't have to explain a naked woman to a pubescent, visually impaired teen, but let's proceed.
Apparently, at least four issues were published this way. The one that now sits on his coffee table - a novelty, he writes, akin to owning a Day-glo orange monkey that speaks Farsi - is from November, 1995. That was the one with Tahnee Welch, Racquel's daughter, on the cover.
Sack wonders how the captions must read:
"Elka leans against a wall, wearing only a carpenter's tool belt. She's hot. Believe me."
I buy the whole idea. Back in school, when I remember late-night discussions over the relative merits of Playboy v Penthouse, I came down on the side on letting your imagination work for you.
And has been since the Middle Ages - if you take "Robin Hood, Men In Tights" as gospel.
Never saw it... but it wasn't really something I felt urged to find out the truth about...
Ah, it played on continuous loop in my house. Sons.
I remember a buddy of mine came across a Braille Playboy in the early '70's. I saw it so I know it existed back then.