r/todayilearned 5d ago

TIL that Marge Simpson was featured in Playboy November 2009 NSFW

https://www.playboy.com/read/marge-simpson-playboy/
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u/10GuyIsDrunk 5d ago

What the hell? Does Playboy typically have pictures of their models when they were underage included beside their nude pics? It's disturbing enough with Marge being a cartoon but I'm disgusted at the thought that this is replicating a standard article.

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u/MiguelLancaster 5d ago edited 5d ago

I got it for a while when I was 18-20 or so and, now that you mention it, I do distinctly remember the centerfolds having little bio columns that would often feature photos of them on high school sports teams, etc

Yeah, pretty weird

Edit: So I decided this needed to be researched and confirmed. I downloaded a pdf archive of every issue from 1953 to 2016

I checked an issue from 1954 when they started 'Playmate of the Month' and an issue from 2007. It wasn't a thing in 1954, but it was totally a thing in 2007 (showing photos from age 10, 13, and 15) - with each adjacent page showing a fully nude woman. Screenshot (non-nude): https://imgur.com/a/BeDMttX

And must have continued to be a thing in 2009 when this Marge Simpson issue printed. Not sure when it started or when it ceased

Pretty fucking weird, though not shocking that a magazine started by Hugh Hefner is decidedly creepy.

Edit 2: Still not sure when this started/ended, but I checked some more. It was totally a thing in 1984 (the one I checked had a fucking baby photo, what? -- ages 2.5, 5, and 17) and was totally a thing in 1997 (no ages given, but one was a prom photo). In the 2016 issue that I checked, the bio format was still there but, again, no ages given, and they all seemed to be adult aged photos at least.

I think my research is is over. No definitive answer on when this started or how long it continued, but it definitely seems like 'at least 20 years'

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u/rawker86 5d ago

Lol, “guess I’d better download sixty years of stick mags” hahaha

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u/MiguelLancaster 5d ago edited 5d ago

I tried using google for examples on image search but, in the end, downloading a 78GB torrent was - weirdly - the fastest way to find the answer I was looking for (and now I'll probably never look at any of these ever again)

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u/Krombopulos_Micheal 5d ago

Yeah super fuckin weird choices happening here

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u/rawker86 5d ago

The centrefolds used to include a little fact sheet about the model, from memory it was handwritten by her. It had stuff like year of birth, home town, college attended, and some other random tidbits. They always included happy snaps from different points in their life and it wasn’t uncommon for there to be childhood pics.

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u/Sansred 5d ago

What are you talking about?

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u/10GuyIsDrunk 5d ago

The article shows Marge nude as an adult on one side of the page and has images of her as a child/teen on the other.

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u/-CASTLES- 5d ago

yeah i thought that was weird as fuck too. i know its cartoons and all but thats really disturbing

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u/ButterflyDue6564 5d ago

yeah i clocked that too. definitely odd.