Playboy's Dystopian Homosexual Future #funfact

In 1955, Playboy magazine published a short story about a dystopian future where heterosexuality is banned, everyone is assumed to be a homosexual and anyone who is found to be heterosexual is arrested and is forced to take “the cure”.

[ValensBellator]

Biggest shock of this is this proves that some people actually *read* playboy.

[LaundryFaerie]

Man, the late 1940s and 1950s were fire for American short stories.

[willowkepler]

"Many people were outraged by this story."

Good

[pranavsridhar]

I think we are fucked as a society when an organisation like playboy has to teach people morals

[dewitthobson]

“The Wanting Seed” is a novel by Anthony Burgess written in 1962 that may be the story that was serialized in Playboy. Burgess is more famous as the author of “A Clockwork Orange”.

[yagrammylemons]

They were just mad cuz a porn magazine gave them a wake up call about their hatred 😂😂

[thequaquman]

went from “wow that weird?” to “wow that’s a cool switch arround.”

[mamapetillo]

Fun fact; it’s been a running joke to say that you read Playboy (or Penthouse) for the articles.
Funner fact; I really did. And they had some truly quality writing and some surprises in their writing.
Man I miss magazines.

[Tanzenergise]

in a nutshell, be nice to eachother. seriously

[ChanceTried]

hey guys i think i know what the cure to being straight was



20 dollars

[Psiros]

When the guy who says "I buy Play Boy for the articles" actually reads the articles.

[SiriusMined]

Hugh Hefner was apparently more Progressive than we ever imagined

[hirsch]

Fun fact : Playboy had excellent writing back in the day, checked out some old issues from that period at a vintage book store

[hecksters]

Hugh Hefner should've also added: "Wait, you people read the articles?"

[Altarior]

“I read playboy for the articles” Playboy has articles?

[crhu]

From 50s to 80s the uncensored Playboy, Penthouse amd even Hustler published a LOT of investigative journalism, insightful fiction, interviews that never got published anywhere else. Just as the Internet today makes $$ off salacious content but then has all the facts.

[king_fresh]

that's actually wild that they wrote that in 1955, they probably got hundreds of death threats for that

[magicman]

How does playboy, a porn magazine, have a better moral standpoint then most news outlets.

[vincenthernandez]

Funny I was able to understand the point of the farse in less than 60 seconds but our grandpas just saw the word "homosexual" and were instantly outraged 😂

[RGC_animation]

The fact that Playboy got angry lettres about that at all is the greatest form of ironic comedy imaginable.