What's the difference between picking up a whore from the street and inviting a call girl over for dinner? The conversation would be different, limited at best but the humping would be the same.

Scott Butki found himself in a hot spot over a satire piece - A Template For Writing To Playboy instead of saying Penthouse. The hullabaloo reached the Playboy blog itself and they bitched about how different Playboy was from Penthouse, that prudish Scott Butki should have known that Playboy doesn't get horny letters like Penthouse does ...yada.....yada....yada.

Here is some unvarnished truth - for Playboy to get all uppity and offended over something so small goes to show that somewhere deep deep inside the editors of Playboy do know that they can never ever be compared to magazines like Salon, Wired, Slate etc. The editor- Josh Robertson at Playblog said:

It’s funny the reactions you get when you tell people you’re an editor at Playboy. Someone asks you what you do; answering “I’m an editor at Playboy magazine,” is like dropping a little conversational bomb. Because everyone has an opinion about Playboy. Everyone thinks he or she knows what the magazine is about and, more forcefully, whether or not it should exist. Problem is, misperception about Playboy has always run high, and those who have the strongest opinions against it usually know the least about it.

The misperception (is that a word? Gotta check dictionary.com) or what he really meant as misconception lies in trying to get the public to move beyond the origins of the magazine that it was and still is considered by most to be a skin magazine.

No matter how well they may wrap up the package, how stodgy and interesting they make the articles but the centerspread reminds people of the hedonistic pleasures partaken at the Hefner mansion with his nubile bunnies.

I am an avid reader of the Playboy blog and was surprised by the offense taken by the editor there. He had let his personal feelings come into play and dragged Playboy into a shit fight of no consequence.

Here is what Matthewmilam said on his blog:

What I think is disgusting about the Playboy employee's handling of the situation is that he or she had the gall to not display the class that supposedly the magazine is known for. If they don't do the kinds of letters that those other adult mags do, then they should take it to another level -- acting and writing like a real professional magazine. The piece written by the employee suggests that dissing is a better way to get your point across.

People's perception of Playboy is that it is the ruler of smut, high class smut at that and for its editors to get into little piss fights over some honest mistake, that too, posted under satire shows how deep the hurt really goes- it is what it is - a wanker first and then a brain tantalizer.