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Mexico :
I will not attempt to claim sainthood. My childhood Catholic school rosaries and bible were packed away long ago along with my faith in the Catholic Church and their men of cloth who claim unconditional holiness. I will also be honest in my thoughts of women. I find them mesmerizing and enchanting. I love the way they walk, their smell, their passion, compassion, strength, endurance, and tenderness. I, personally, could never and would never deny the fact,that to me, a woman’s body, in all of nature’s glory, is nothing short of a divine, miraculous creation by God himself.
The last few years in Mexico have left our society hardened. Daily news of mass mutilations, kidnappings, blood, and death have left us with little faith. Society has lost all morals, values, and human resemblance, Mexico has hit rock bottom, we can’t get any lower; or can we?
Playboy Mexico released it’s Christmas edition featuring model Maria Florencia Onori in nothing but an angelic white cloth with a stained-glass window behind her. The pose and facial expression evoke the docile and innocent image of the Virgin Mary seen in many paintings and statues. The Spanish headline “Te adoramos, Mary” translate to: We adore you, Mary.
The release was timed for the day before Mexico’s traditional Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a celebration of an apparition of the Virgin in Mexico. The entire month of December is filled with images, parades, and homages depicting the Blessed Virgin, however, Mexico wasn’t ready to see Her on the cover of a gentleman’s magazine, nude.
“With all the things in the world they could have done, they shouldn’t have picked such a delicate topic, something that is so important to those of us who are believers,” said one resident.
As of Thursady, more than 89,000 editions of the 100,000 copies had been sold. The press director of Lyrsa Editores, the company that publishes the magazine in Mexico, said there were no plans to print more.
Update 10:00 p.m. 12 Diciembre 2008: Playboy U.S.A. apologized for the unapproved Playboy Mexico edition. To read more please follow link.
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This just came in across the wire regarding the model and the Playboy edition:
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE4BC0DF20081213
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE4BC0DF20081213
(Local Perspectives)
the apology to us the ”people” is ok but i hope whoever intended it that also remembers to apologize to the Virgin Mary.
Deep down I still feel that this issue was meant that way - to show to the world like tha. I pray hope they pray for forgiveness from our Mother Mary and do penance.
Deep down I still feel that this issue was meant that way - to show to the world like tha. I pray hope they pray for forgiveness from our Mother Mary and do penance.
(Global Perspectives)
This should not have been done.
Religion should be kept aside from the modeling or the fashion...
Religion should be kept aside from the modeling or the fashion...
(Global Perspectives)
OMG! it is terrible to make use of Mary in playboy! maybe the one who make the concept is not a believer.
(Global Perspectives)
I’m all for the Virgin Mary, she is the patron of our Country and of the world. To be honest, I’m all for playboy..But I AM NOT FOR OUR VIRGIN MARY ON PLAYBOY...
WRONG, WRONG, AND WRONG!
WRONG, WRONG, AND WRONG!
(Local Perspectives)
Playboy should be banned..in mexico...
MF Hussian a famious indian panter made ”nude” paintings of Indian Goddess and since then has to live in exile in Dubai....
artists and press sometimes takes their creative liberties too lightly
MF Hussian a famious indian panter made ”nude” paintings of Indian Goddess and since then has to live in exile in Dubai....
artists and press sometimes takes their creative liberties too lightly
(Global Perspectives)
I have been waiting to hear of new information, but hjave found nothing at all in the t.v., paper, or internet..
Seems as though the edition has finished, it is over, legally..But in the hearts of all followers it will take alot of time and will surly never be ”forgotten.”
Seems as though the edition has finished, it is over, legally..But in the hearts of all followers it will take alot of time and will surly never be ”forgotten.”
(Local Perspectives)
Very sad state of affairs. This is a perfect example of being mentally bankrupt.
(Global Perspectives)
”mentally bankrupt”
That’s exactly what it is...Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I WAS, WE WERE..
I realize this narco war has eliminated many values of what is sacred, now we get THIS..
The few treausures the narcos leave us, the hateful society is ready to scoop up and take from us as well.
That’s exactly what it is...Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I WAS, WE WERE..
I realize this narco war has eliminated many values of what is sacred, now we get THIS..
The few treausures the narcos leave us, the hateful society is ready to scoop up and take from us as well.
(Local Perspectives)
yes, this is miserable...
somejust don’t know where to draw the line...!
They are pretty weak in geometry I suppose!
somejust don’t know where to draw the line...!
They are pretty weak in geometry I suppose!
(Global Perspectives)
At the risk of offending more than one person here, I really do not see the problem with this.
I’d just like to turn the question around a little. With all the shit going down in Mexico right now, who CARES about THIS?!!!!
Some may find it offensive, due to their beliefs, some (like me) may not, due to theirs.
Fine. (My call? It’s dumb, and childishly provocative, but only for those dumb enough to let themselves be provoked).
I agree altogether with the first paragraph of this post. My admiration for women needs no proving. But the lampooning of religion, or Mary, is not wrong for anyone who believes in free speech, or, who, like me, sees religion as being a negative influence on this world (is it ok if I have my point of view?).
Religious people have the right to criticise the ”godlessness” of ”infidels” like myself and my culture, and I would defend their right to do so, even if I do not agree with them. Religions, and the religious, have the right to free speech and I wholly accept and support that.
Well, that cuts both ways. Those who feel like publishing this should likewise be able to do so. Anything else is called integrism and religious control over what is, or is not, published.
And I, for one, do not accept religious lobbying and censorship of individual expression, with all the deep respect I have for all the points of view concerned.
Should it all just be one-way moralising traffic?
Sorry guys, if you want to be free to dish it out, you need to be able to take it too.....
Respects
I’d just like to turn the question around a little. With all the shit going down in Mexico right now, who CARES about THIS?!!!!
Some may find it offensive, due to their beliefs, some (like me) may not, due to theirs.
Fine. (My call? It’s dumb, and childishly provocative, but only for those dumb enough to let themselves be provoked).
I agree altogether with the first paragraph of this post. My admiration for women needs no proving. But the lampooning of religion, or Mary, is not wrong for anyone who believes in free speech, or, who, like me, sees religion as being a negative influence on this world (is it ok if I have my point of view?).
Religious people have the right to criticise the ”godlessness” of ”infidels” like myself and my culture, and I would defend their right to do so, even if I do not agree with them. Religions, and the religious, have the right to free speech and I wholly accept and support that.
Well, that cuts both ways. Those who feel like publishing this should likewise be able to do so. Anything else is called integrism and religious control over what is, or is not, published.
And I, for one, do not accept religious lobbying and censorship of individual expression, with all the deep respect I have for all the points of view concerned.
Should it all just be one-way moralising traffic?
Sorry guys, if you want to be free to dish it out, you need to be able to take it too.....
Respects
(Global Perspectives)
I’m not offended AT ALL my friend..
Do I like the cover? No...Do I think it was in good taste? Absolutly NOT..Do I have a problem with men’s magazines in general? Hell NO!
For me, personally, I’m not traumatized..My faith remains the same, no more, no less. I believe in Freedom of Speach, Press, Religion, Sexuality, and more.
I don’t think Playboy committed a horric crime, but I DO think it should have been more sensitive..Playboy is generally sold with a plastic blacked out covering in the newstands, this issue presented without the covering to draw attention; good and bad.
In light of what is happening here in Mexico, for many their faith is the only thing keeping them intact, allowing them to wake up and keep moving each day..For those people, this publication was hurtful and hateful..
Like I said, I am not even close to being in a position to throw stones, wouldn’t want to even if I was, but I CAN see both sides of this coin; especially with the way it was released and the date of it’s release correlating with the pilgrimage of millions to the Virgin at the Basilica.
I don’t feel anyone should be EXILED, but I think they should just try to be a bit more sensitive to the issue at hand...
Do I like the cover? No...Do I think it was in good taste? Absolutly NOT..Do I have a problem with men’s magazines in general? Hell NO!
For me, personally, I’m not traumatized..My faith remains the same, no more, no less. I believe in Freedom of Speach, Press, Religion, Sexuality, and more.
I don’t think Playboy committed a horric crime, but I DO think it should have been more sensitive..Playboy is generally sold with a plastic blacked out covering in the newstands, this issue presented without the covering to draw attention; good and bad.
In light of what is happening here in Mexico, for many their faith is the only thing keeping them intact, allowing them to wake up and keep moving each day..For those people, this publication was hurtful and hateful..
Like I said, I am not even close to being in a position to throw stones, wouldn’t want to even if I was, but I CAN see both sides of this coin; especially with the way it was released and the date of it’s release correlating with the pilgrimage of millions to the Virgin at the Basilica.
I don’t feel anyone should be EXILED, but I think they should just try to be a bit more sensitive to the issue at hand...
(Local Perspectives)
Yeah, I agree. As I said, it DOES seem to have been dumbly provocative and, I have no problem believing that, hurtful and hateful to others.
(LOL, And since when was Playboy to be taken seriously!!!:)
My only point was that any idea of stopping the publication of such childish stuff is much more pernicious than its publication.
Let’s just ignore Playboy and hope it goes away. For dumb-fucks like that, ANY publicity is better than none......
(ps. The REAL THING is much better...and a lot more consensual...and sensual too!! LOL)
(LOL, And since when was Playboy to be taken seriously!!!:)
My only point was that any idea of stopping the publication of such childish stuff is much more pernicious than its publication.
Let’s just ignore Playboy and hope it goes away. For dumb-fucks like that, ANY publicity is better than none......
(ps. The REAL THING is much better...and a lot more consensual...and sensual too!! LOL)
(Global Perspectives)
Absolutly..Attemptin to Censor would only feed the publicity they are looking for..There is NO such thing as BAD publicity..Business is Business, in fact bad more ofton than not, creates alot more Cash flow than good in literature/ recreational marketing...
I haven’t bought a Playboy in I don’t know how long, yes, the real thing is MUCH better, but I don’t think it should be removed...I would 1000 times prefer my Right to choose to buy this issure or Not to buy it, than be denied my RIGHT to buy 1000’s of other topic issues...
On another note, the apology the U.S. Playboy sent is the biggest load of B.S. I have heard in a while.. There job is to make money..PERIOD. Sex sells and Sex with Scandel sells even more..For them to say they had NO idea and that the front page was in refrence to the Renassaince era, Not the Virgin Mary and the Multimillion person pilgrimage is ridiculous..Whoever wrote the apology needs to buck up, be a man, and grow a pair of balls!
I haven’t bought a Playboy in I don’t know how long, yes, the real thing is MUCH better, but I don’t think it should be removed...I would 1000 times prefer my Right to choose to buy this issure or Not to buy it, than be denied my RIGHT to buy 1000’s of other topic issues...
On another note, the apology the U.S. Playboy sent is the biggest load of B.S. I have heard in a while.. There job is to make money..PERIOD. Sex sells and Sex with Scandel sells even more..For them to say they had NO idea and that the front page was in refrence to the Renassaince era, Not the Virgin Mary and the Multimillion person pilgrimage is ridiculous..Whoever wrote the apology needs to buck up, be a man, and grow a pair of balls!
(Local Perspectives)
Oh absolutely. The apology thing is hypocritical and cynically calculated bullshit.
I have no problem with them printing this issue, but APOLOGISING AFTERWARDS???
C’mon, they (and people in general) should accept what they publish, or not publish at all.
I think personally that this whole thing is deliberate.
I think they did this to boost future figures. I bet you champagne that their next issue will sell like hot cakes.
And my bet is that there’ll be some really sizzlin’ hot mexican chick on the cover.
Cynical? Me? LOL!!
(Buying Playboy? I honestly think I last bought that around thirty years ago, at least. Then I discovered that women are better in real life than on paper).
Yessirree!!
I have no problem with them printing this issue, but APOLOGISING AFTERWARDS???
C’mon, they (and people in general) should accept what they publish, or not publish at all.
I think personally that this whole thing is deliberate.
I think they did this to boost future figures. I bet you champagne that their next issue will sell like hot cakes.
And my bet is that there’ll be some really sizzlin’ hot mexican chick on the cover.
Cynical? Me? LOL!!
(Buying Playboy? I honestly think I last bought that around thirty years ago, at least. Then I discovered that women are better in real life than on paper).
Yessirree!!
(Global Perspectives)
Historically, statistics show that Playboy Mexico usually shows a drop in revenue in December...
Why? Some people might ask? Plain and simple...There are two types of Mexicans: Devout Catholics and the so called non- practicing Heathens, like me..
But the kicker is even us ”Heathens” do NOT live life in faithless glory..December is a month in Mexico for reflecting, rejoicing, and being Thankful ( between December 9- 12 being the days we pay homage to the Virgin of Guadalupe (Mary) and Christmas)...
In Mexico even the ”non-practicing” Catholics feel a tug at their hearts and spirits at this time, after all, we didn’t leave God and the Saints by deciding not to worship in Church)...
with that mind, many Mexicans who generally purchase each issue will forgoe Decembers issue as they take a small spiritual journey (hipocrytic? Yes..Rare, unheard of? No.)back to their roots and beliefs..
This year Playboy found a way to not only maintain there sales, but INCREASE them...
On January 6th, Mexico celebrates ”Dia de Los Reyes”: Kings Day, when the kings came to gift baby Jesus...I can only imaagine what next months issue will have in store for us: A hot Mexican....three kings...gifts? It’s already a TOP SELLING scenario!!!!!
I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
Why? Some people might ask? Plain and simple...There are two types of Mexicans: Devout Catholics and the so called non- practicing Heathens, like me..
But the kicker is even us ”Heathens” do NOT live life in faithless glory..December is a month in Mexico for reflecting, rejoicing, and being Thankful ( between December 9- 12 being the days we pay homage to the Virgin of Guadalupe (Mary) and Christmas)...
In Mexico even the ”non-practicing” Catholics feel a tug at their hearts and spirits at this time, after all, we didn’t leave God and the Saints by deciding not to worship in Church)...
with that mind, many Mexicans who generally purchase each issue will forgoe Decembers issue as they take a small spiritual journey (hipocrytic? Yes..Rare, unheard of? No.)back to their roots and beliefs..
This year Playboy found a way to not only maintain there sales, but INCREASE them...
On January 6th, Mexico celebrates ”Dia de Los Reyes”: Kings Day, when the kings came to gift baby Jesus...I can only imaagine what next months issue will have in store for us: A hot Mexican....three kings...gifts? It’s already a TOP SELLING scenario!!!!!
I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
(Local Perspectives)
Oh, yeah, sorry, I forgot about the December truce.
But hey Oscar, your prediction ”A hot Mexican....three kings...gifts? It’s already a TOP SELLING scenario!!!!!”
This is DYNAMITE, MAN!!!
Listen. If we combine your imagination, my marketing flair, and some money from a banker I know in the Virgin Islands, we could launch our OWN mag. You know, kinda just blow Playboy away!!
We could be dollar billionaires in 18 months!!!
(There’s also the idea about this frustrated Mormon chick in Salt Lake City, Utah, who meets this guy who says he’s the son of Jesus, or at least he SAYS he is, and he has this bookshop, and....oh, ok, yeah you’re right, I’ll tell you more in a personal email....)
But hey Oscar, your prediction ”A hot Mexican....three kings...gifts? It’s already a TOP SELLING scenario!!!!!”
This is DYNAMITE, MAN!!!
Listen. If we combine your imagination, my marketing flair, and some money from a banker I know in the Virgin Islands, we could launch our OWN mag. You know, kinda just blow Playboy away!!
We could be dollar billionaires in 18 months!!!
(There’s also the idea about this frustrated Mormon chick in Salt Lake City, Utah, who meets this guy who says he’s the son of Jesus, or at least he SAYS he is, and he has this bookshop, and....oh, ok, yeah you’re right, I’ll tell you more in a personal email....)
(Global Perspectives)
”Dollar billionairs in months”? Hell, I’d be happy to catch up my mortgage, put new shocks on my car, and pay my sons next semester of school..(ha ha)..
I knew my ass backwards mischievous thoughts couldn’t be ALL that bad! or..maybe it really is ALL that bad, and only able to appreciated by Heathen friends, like you..ha ha..
Call your friend, let’s get rolling.. I ’ve got 3 kids, dogs and a wife who’s already dreaming of pimping her van Easter bunny style come Spring..
I knew my ass backwards mischievous thoughts couldn’t be ALL that bad! or..maybe it really is ALL that bad, and only able to appreciated by Heathen friends, like you..ha ha..
Call your friend, let’s get rolling.. I ’ve got 3 kids, dogs and a wife who’s already dreaming of pimping her van Easter bunny style come Spring..
(Local Perspectives)
Done deal.
My banker friend is currently on a one-week holiday he bought on the latest NASA shuttle mission so I’ll call him when he lands. (He hates being disturbed while he’s having fun. Who can blame him?)
With what we’re gonna earn, my friend, your wife will be able to put a bunny tail on the pimping van, and a furry coat too. The kids could have Manhattan apartments to take their friends to, and you could bury the dogs in Arlington with full military honours!!!
Then, when we’ve made enough, we’ll buy out Mexico and turn it into a peaceful country.
We WOULD, of course, have to ban Playboy and viciously exterminate the cartels, but just think of the advantages!!
(Oh, and a friend just told me about his idea for a blind cisterian monk who buys a copy of Playboy and gets his sight back but then he realises that...yeah, I know. Personal email).
My banker friend is currently on a one-week holiday he bought on the latest NASA shuttle mission so I’ll call him when he lands. (He hates being disturbed while he’s having fun. Who can blame him?)
With what we’re gonna earn, my friend, your wife will be able to put a bunny tail on the pimping van, and a furry coat too. The kids could have Manhattan apartments to take their friends to, and you could bury the dogs in Arlington with full military honours!!!
Then, when we’ve made enough, we’ll buy out Mexico and turn it into a peaceful country.
We WOULD, of course, have to ban Playboy and viciously exterminate the cartels, but just think of the advantages!!
(Oh, and a friend just told me about his idea for a blind cisterian monk who buys a copy of Playboy and gets his sight back but then he realises that...yeah, I know. Personal email).
(Global Perspectives)
”Then, when we’ve made enough, we’ll buy out Mexico and turn it into a peaceful country.”
Keep the apartments, arlington burials, and bunny tails..Just show me how to do the above... :)
Keep the apartments, arlington burials, and bunny tails..Just show me how to do the above... :)
(Local Perspectives)
you boys are in big trouble, dollar billions are in discussion and Wa’d and I aren’t Involved? Not to mention your own MAG? BOYS this is like my dream!!
Besides, your imagination and marketing flair alone won’t do you any good:P
Must have the master scheming too! that’s where the girls come in of course!!
Besides, your imagination and marketing flair alone won’t do you any good:P
Must have the master scheming too! that’s where the girls come in of course!!
(Global Perspectives)
(Uh oh. Oscar my friend, we are in BIG trouble here. DEEEEP doodoo!!! The girls are here, we’d better skedaddle an’ quick!!!!)
Sarah, please don’t tell Wa’d about this ok? Look, we’ve stopped anyway. Oscar says he just wants peace and I agree with him, so we’ve stopped ok? Be cool with us, we wuz only havin’ fun!
As for the Master Scheming capabilities of you girls, I have NO doubt that you are right. Besides, there is a well-known english expression which says ”Behind every soft porn mag there is a woman”. (Or was it ”behind every MAN...”? Hmmm).
Listen, we’ll keep this project on the back-burner for now and get back to you when the time’s right.....
Ok? Phew...thanks...
Seeya!
Sarah, please don’t tell Wa’d about this ok? Look, we’ve stopped anyway. Oscar says he just wants peace and I agree with him, so we’ve stopped ok? Be cool with us, we wuz only havin’ fun!
As for the Master Scheming capabilities of you girls, I have NO doubt that you are right. Besides, there is a well-known english expression which says ”Behind every soft porn mag there is a woman”. (Or was it ”behind every MAN...”? Hmmm).
Listen, we’ll keep this project on the back-burner for now and get back to you when the time’s right.....
Ok? Phew...thanks...
Seeya!
(Global Perspectives)
Euh,, this is sooo not ”nice” of you boys...Sarah, we need to make a plan ... we can’t take this kind of disrespect anymore around here!!!
I can’t believe they are even discussing it publicly ignoring the fact that we DO read their pages!!! :D
I can’t believe they are even discussing it publicly ignoring the fact that we DO read their pages!!! :D
(Global Perspectives)
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The punishment will also be severe on all involved. Am no prophet of doom but for this I know.
I spent a better part of my life rebeling against everything and everyone. I screwed up in my personal life as a son, a young single man, as a husband, as a father, as in general as a human being..Somehow I’m still alive to tell a few tales and still married to live and create even more..I’d have to say, there’s no other explanation, but the Big Guy above decided I was worth the chance..
I’m still not dreaming of sainthood, but I’d like to think I’ve finally got my head screwed on straight (at least on most days.)
I’m all for freedom of choice, freedom of speach, freedom of press and seperation of Church and State...but somethings you just don’t f@ck with..this, HER, the Virgin, is one of them..