To the editors:
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I’m commenting about Cate Plys’s article “Miscellany: Man Track,” [March 29] on Playboy. I’m surprised to see such an obvious prejudiced article and as a longtime subscriber who actually purchases the magazine for its written content, I am offended. Ms. Plys states several times that the magazine is obscene; many two-bit prosecutors have been trying to prove this in court for 30 years without success. No doubt they needed Ms. Plys’s testimony. Some things that never came up in her research: Playboy pays higher fees to writers than most if not all other American magazines; their features on entertainment such as movies, music, video, etc rival if not surpass other mass media. To name a couple–Birnbaum on travel, Williamson on movies. By the way, I should add that I’m not a 16-year-old that Plys feels is the ideal Playboy reader age, I’m 63.
Lincolnwood
