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When Playboy Magazine banned me, I felt like I was being censored

When I was a young Playboy Playmate in the ’70s, I was an outspoken Playboy editor, a hot blonde in an outfit that was all about sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.

I was told I was too young to write about sex.

In that culture, the word “girl” had been taken out of the equation.

When Playboy banned me from its annual Playboy Playhouse party, I thought, What have I done?

I felt as though I was having my sexuality questioned.

But then I thought about my role in this cultural shift.

As a woman of color, I had to question the same questions Playboy was asking.

I went to the magazine’s headquarters to ask about my rights as a black woman and black female journalist.

It wasn’t the first time I had been denied entry.

I had written a column in Playboy about my experiences in New York’s Chinatown, about the fear I had of being harassed by gangsters.

I thought I had lost my job because I was writing about my own experience in the United States.

My colleagues said I had violated the magazine rules.

In fact, they were right.

My editor at the time, the black man in charge of the magazine, called me a “black slut.”

My editors said I was “playing the game.”

I was afraid to even say I was black in public.

In those early days of Playboy, black women were being harassed in a number of ways.

One of the biggest was in the magazine industry.

I remember one of the first things I wrote about was how I felt, in a way, I belonged to this group that was trying to make fun of me.

I wrote that I was the “black girl” who had been called the “white girl” and was therefore an “exotic” person.

I felt that if I spoke up, I would be treated differently than anyone else.

When I arrived at the Playhouse, I noticed there was a large line of people who wanted to talk to me.

One woman told me she had never been in a room with a black person before and that she was a “big boy.”

I felt angry and offended that she had not accepted the compliment.

It seemed to me that her experience was not representative of the Black experience.

It made me feel that I had not earned the right to be called “the black girl.”

After I was banned from the Play house, I tried to be a “good girl” by being polite and not speaking to people.

I did my best to behave in a respectful manner, even if I did not feel like I had done so well.

At the time it was still very difficult to speak up about sexual harassment, especially in the industry.

For example, I knew that the magazine did not like to have women on the cover, and I was one of only a few women on their staff, so I was often excluded from the editorial staff.

I also had to do my best not to be “the white girl” that everyone had to see.

I knew Playboy wanted to protect their image.

At one point in my career, I quit because I didn’t feel like the magazine was taking advantage of me as a woman and that I should not have to work with other women.

But that wasn’t how I understood Playboy.

I wanted to make sure I had a positive role model and an outlet for my personal stories.

I found myself on the defensive in Playboy because I felt I had the ability to do something about sexual violence in the workplace.

At that time, there was no system in place to protect women from sexual harassment.

As the years passed, I began to question my experience and began to feel like it was not something I could do anything about.

I started to question Playboy’s standards for female journalists and editors.

And then, in the early ’90s, Playboy launched an investigation into me and found that I did, in fact, break the rules.

The magazine said that my reporting was “inappropriate.”

I thought it was unfair that I didn�t get a formal response.

Then, in 1995, I received an email from a Playmate who had just left the magazine.

She had just filed a complaint with the company and was being “dismissed.”

She had been fired because she had told her bosses about the sexual harassment allegations against me.

In 1995, a black Playboy Playmates was fired because of his reporting on sexual harassment at the magazine that Playboy was banning him from.

I became a sex columnist at Playboy and began reporting on sex trafficking.

I am a sex worker myself and I also write about the culture of sexual violence.

I have a daughter now and a son, and we have experienced a number for our profession.

I never felt like my reporting, my journalism, was being protected.

When the Playboy Play House ban came down, I went into hiding.

I spent the next four years working in a variety of jobs, from house cleaning to

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