Blind People LOVED Playboy Magazine

[@carportchronicles1943]

I attended the U.S. military's journalism school in the early '90s (We were such small community within the services that all branches attend the same school). One of my instructors told our class to read Playboy to get a better understanding of how to conduct interviews.

[@snicksabea]

They had awesome printing too.

[@Bbonno]

I would expect their interviews to be to notch from a technical standpoint. Nobody being booked for a playboy interview will have much of an agenda for what they want them to print, so the interview can start from a blank slate, letting the journalist do his thing

[@Anthony-uu2tk]

Awesome to see an old PAO on here. I graduated from DINFOS in 2022, and my instructors said the same thing

[@z0mn1a]

Today you look to Nardwuar. The utter god of interviews.

[@vascoapolonio2309]

Conservatives are all the same. A

[@clawton16]

What a surprising yet also unsurprising plot twist lmao

[@hannahlistento100EAT]

Sometimes you gotta realize you been baited into staying until the very last second

[@egoreirich789]

The hypocrisy!😅

[@CorrectMyGrammarPls]

Unsurprising that it happened, surprising that it's public information

[@nothingtoseeherelolkek]

For me, who lived 25 years in Russia surprising was only the fact that it got reinstated.

[@LDogSmiles]

It’s a classic “Rules for thee but not for me”

[@soffren]

I remember seeing a playboy magazine at my uncles house one time as a teenager. I was so excited for naked women, but ended up reading a two page spread about the history of the Ford Mustang (fun fact: it was originally designed and marketed as car for women)

[@chuuchuuutrain]

damn instead of getting hard you got some knowledge put into you 💀

[@neanda]

hefner knew that we wanted something to read after we cum

[@mysticondeflamme]

@@chuuchuuutrain I like getting things put into me

[@markm0000]

@@mysticondeflammethat’s kinda gay

[@soffren]

@@markm0000 during pride month is the USA, not being at least a little gay is illegal.

[@Cruznick06]

One of my friends in highschool was blind and read the braille version of Playboy. She proved "read it for the articles" was a true statement and I started reading the publication as well so we could discuss said articles together. Its a shame it shut down in 2020. I'm glad we had it for as long as we did. The journalism really was top-noch.

[@TheSpecialJ11]

That moment when a lewd magazine had better journalism than most large news media organizations of today.

[@Headlessgenie]

It shut down in 2020? Man this thing i have heard alot of good about besides promiscuous imagery is gone? My dad even has a playboy bunny tattoo

[@Kenionatus]

Huh, Wikipedia states it still exists online. Did they drop the journalism part of it?

[@requiem165]

They don’t print the magazine anymore due to magazine sales being at an all time low, it is still available online however

[@heroclix0rz]

"I read it to bond with my blind friend!"

[@philiphockenbury6563]

I knew Playboy had good articles before because I read Fahrenheit 451, and the forward was about the history of the short story and how Playboy was the only publisher that had the guts to print it. I didn’t know that it was popular in the blind community.

[@Transformers2Fan1]

*foreword

[@philiphockenbury6563]

@@Transformers2Fan1 Thanks for nothing spellcheck. Anyways, thanks.

[@gremlinman9724]

the fact that mac mattingly thought that it was a magazine exclusively about portraying illicit sex material shows that he wasn't reading it for the articles.

[@physical_insanity]

He probably wasn't reading it at all, because if he was, he wouldn't make that kind of move.

[@Brother_Piner]

⁠@@physical_insanityOr maybe giving taxpayers money to a nude magazine that is explicitly incredibly left-wing isn’t really something that should be allowed, and wouldn’t really gain bi-partisan support. Especially when you consider the kind of lifestyle Playboy advocated in its articles.

[@physical_insanity]

@@Brother_Piner Fair point, I guess, but if the money was being given exclusively for the braille translation program, I don't see a problem. It gives the blind high-quality articles to read and no extra money is being spent on the indecent material. Besides, well adjusted adults should be able to recognise something reprehensible when they see (or in the blind community's case, feel it) and so can disagree with or ignore it altogether, proving what kind of market there is for it, but I'm honestly not that fussed about this, tbh. I just wanted to write a funni comment.

[@curtisthomas2670]

Playboy was "left wing"????? That must have a totally different meaning for some people 😅

[@bcubed72]

No; he just recognized a political football when he saw one.

[@dosde8391]

Funny how an erotic magazine is more inclusive than modern media

[@gremlinman9724]

ah, the erotic community always discriminates less than any other. when you've seen what they've seen, very little seems morally unreasonable in comparison.

[@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat]

​@Gremlin Man honestly, I am somewhat serious when I saw porn and erotica communities are genuinely frequently very inclusive and friendly.

[@jessehunter362]

@@gremlinman9724 Tolerate everything but intolerance.

[@NakedAvanger]

not really past media was just as scuffed as modern is. only less people noticed and/or talked about it.

[@junjunjamore7735]

But the blind community has audiobooks and text-to-speech now. It's not perfect (since braille is literature) but it's something.

[@MrJayrock620]

As awesome as this is, all I can picture is a blind man flipping open a brail centrefold, running his hand over it and saying “you gotta check this one out” lol

[@SarafinaSummers]

Call the morgue, I'm dead!

[@fahadalghamdi9316]

Puts a whole new meaning to "that chest can make a blind man see"

[@axiezimmah]

Man you gotta feel these curves

[@AdamYJ]

Wasn’t this a joke in Robin Hood: Men in Tights?

[@jacknephew1849]

One of the best "hm"s I've heard this week for sure 3:13

[@bankshot9985]

I’d like to mention there’s an innate difference from disagreeing with someone and taking away someone’s basic freedoms

[@normanclatcher]

I'm a fan of both, personally.

[@bigchungus420]

​@@normanclatcherhey man I get it, it sucks being a teenager. Get off 4chan and get a hobby. I was like you once

[@normanclatcher]

@@bigchungus420 Actually 26, and I typically avoid the Mongolian basket-weaving forum like the scourge I know it to be. Apologies that my satire didn't track.

[@jamie1602]

@@normanclatcher Twenty-six and your balls never dropped. Gotcha. You told on yourself. This was not the flex you thought it was.

[@Brother_Piner]

Being funded by the government isn’t a basic freedom. That’s arguably giving favor to Playboy over those who’d disagree with its philosophy.

[@alkh3myst]

As a late Sixties to mid-Seventies latchkey kid, I regularly raided my father's Playboy collection to see naked women, only to be shocked to find some of the best literature I read during my "tween" years. One post-apocalyptic sci-fi short story I read in Playboy, "Xong of Xuxan", By the late Ray Russell, is one of the best short stories I ever read. Normally, I hate post nuclear war stories, and I'm primarily a sci-fi reader. There's way too many of them, the subject is too depressing, and it's too close to really happening. But Xong of Xuxan has haunted me all these years, it was so vividly written.

[@naomihatfield3015]

Thanks to Playboy, pre-teen me spent as much time with a dictionary as I did with the magazine. It did so much to improve my vocabulary over the years, and yes, the articles were what I looked forward to most. Had a subscription through the mid-90’s. I also enjoyed the cartoons, lots of sly humor there.

[@kewlkidsklub4207]

You should def do more long form content, this was amazing

[@DougSharpe]

Thanks Kewlkidsklub420. I'll try and get more long format out

[@lilliththesilly]

bro this is 3 minutes "long form content" 💀💀💀 (good video though)

[@wooblydooblygod3857]

Friend get a new attention span, this is short form.

[@Lord_Of_Aether]

@@lilliththesillyIt’s three times the length of the maximum short time, so while not being long-form, it definitely is a long short.

[@penguinwolf3330]

shorts has done irreparable damage

[@pandamaster8306]

Thank god the advertisements weren't translated. When you see the page, it's easy to gloss over, but with braille, you would actually need to read it to know where the actual articles start again.

[@diggoran]

That “Hmm” at the end was perfect XD

[@zombiedoggie2732]

Even if it was smut, the blind are adults and deserve access to smut as well.

[@janofb]

I didn't have a father growing up. But a buddy's older brother had a subscription. I grabbed a couple of issues to see the ladies, but I started to read all the literature and it literally was a surrogate older brother/Dad. There were stories on how to dress, shave, manscape, drink wine, food, how to date. It was like a boy's guide to becoming a man. I subscribed for years, even after I got married. The wife complained, but I made her read the stories and she stopped complaining. I got rid of it when Hef died. It wasn't the same I now I hear it's worse.

[@-originalLemon-]

Are you a dream Stan by any chance?

[@portablerefrigerator4902]

@@-originalLemon- bro what????

[@onion6667]

@@-originalLemon- are you autistic

[@physical_insanity]

@@-originalLemon- Wrong time, bro.

[@warezz1743]

​@@-originalLemon-my brother YOU are more fatherless than op.

[@afaella3]

Within my small but treasured Playboy Magazine Collection, I have a braille edition, part 2 of 3 of the April 2007 magazine. If you've never seen a Braille Playboy you'd probably be suprised at how large it is - this particular one is about 11" by 11" square, and about 3/4" thick - and it only contains 1/3 of the magazine's articles! Truly a unique specimine that im honored to own.

[@hughcaldwell1034]

Yeah, Braille books are hefty. My textbooks in high school were thick as hell, and as you say, only a fraction of the print contents per volume.

[@SarafinaSummers]

Yep. that paper is 11.0-11-1/2 inches long and usually brailled books come in multiple volumes.

[@Bald_Fred]

Yeah, that's because grade 1 and grade 2 Braille is still larger than print. For those who do not know, grade 2 is contracted Braille where there are cells to represent small words or a few letters.

[@JAM35_]

Please do more full length videos. I really appreciate this type of content, and it pays better, just a bonus for you.

[@zacharyhenderson2902]

It actually doesn't really pay better, because longer videos take longer to edit and they can't easily be promoted on different platforms, like Twitter and TikTok.

[@JAM35_]

@@zacharyhenderson2902 some youtubers only make 15 or 20 dollars for a million views on youtube shorts where a 60 second video (not put into the shorts algorithm) that gets a million views could make more than a thousand dollars. I've seen several youtubers that were making only about 100,000 views a month go to youtube shorts make a hundred million views in a month and switch back because it's not making as much money as before. A good example is whoever does the mouse trap Mondays videos, another good example is feloniousfalafel whose been trying to push people to watch his long form content for a while.

[@ronaid-with-an-i]

@@zacharyhenderson2902 this type of video doesn't really take an enormous amount of editing compared to a 40 minute video essay that's not just someone talking to a camera

[@DougSharpe]

JAM35 thank you. I'm happy you enjoyed the video. As I am mostly known for my shorts it's always a bit nerve racking to post long format since they don't generally do as well (less people see them) but after reading the comments in my short about a story that was published in Playboy I felt this was a very necessary follow up and since I couldn't fit the whole story into a short and I don't ever do part 2, part 3 style video's this one needed to be long format. To settle a few debates in this thread, - Long format pays SIGNIFICANTLY better than shorts. Like astronomically more - Since I am a Canadian; TikTok, Instagram & Twitter do not pay me to produce content. KZbin is the only platform that pays Canadian Creators. None of the other platforms offer monetization to Canadians - This type of video takes a ton more effort to produce than a short. My shorts generally take 2-3 hours to produce. This video took just over 6 hours. (a 3 minute 2 second monologue is not easy to do in one take. and the editing process is much more intensive) Much love guys. Thanks for commenting and watching the video. Hope you enjoy whatever comes next

[@sidneyvandykeii3169]

​@@DougSharpe I am 53 yrs old with the attention span of a sparrow. I do enjoy your shorts but this longer format is pretty nice. I know 3 minutes isn't THAT long really but you do squeeze more information into the video. I love it. I would like to see you release One of these every week. And speak a little slower since you do have the time. Just a little. I really like getting the additional information about the subject matter but you are putting out too much info too fast in a 3 minute video. Speak fast in the shorts and then slow it down for the longer 3 minute video. Love the work, keep it up and I will watch.

[@zanforian]

Fun fact, in the movie Sneakers a blind character is indeed seen reading a braille version of playboy.

[@nancyf7919]

Such a fun movie!

[@pistl5340]

Damn bro! I never thought of it this was! This actually unironically blew my mind 🤯

[@NikkiBdraws]

I was honestly expecting that congressman to be caught up in a sex scandal at the end.

[@a_random_W]

the original version of "i read h*ntai for the plot"

[@NONAMENONONAME]

I remember founding my uncle's Playboy collection in the 90's and being much more impressed with the quality of the articles than with the pictures who were slightly erotic.

[@awes0men0b0dy9]

I found it hilarious the way he said "because its for BLIND people"

[@yukaroj]

bro those last 10 seconds really threw me for a loop

[@PopTartNeko]

Yeah, I just saw some vintage playboys from 60s-70s. I know what centerfolds are from old tales, but man I did not expect the centerfold to be the ONLY lewd part of the magazine Those mags are literally 80% literature and maybe 20% pom

[@Helperbot-2000]

"pom" is perfect, how did you think of it? lmao

[@nobodybutaghost]

0:35 bro just started listing some of my favorite people. 9 out 13 are role models/the best people I know of

[@smurftums]

In the eighties I volunteered for a radio station that specialised in reading out news articles for the "print handicapped" (vision impaired, but also useful for those with literacy problems and the like). They used to read Playboy articles and the running joke was "the staple in the centrefold is in a really interesting spot this month"... :)

[@satohime]

this video feels like trying to study during lunch period but you're sitting with your autistic friend who is excited to share with you the random obscure thing they stayed up all night learning about and you don't tell them to stop because you love your bro and it calms you to know that they're so comfortable talking to you

[@bigedwerd]

So you're telling me the gag in Robin Hood Men in Tights with the braille playboy made up the center fold for the blind

[@JAM35_]

I love your content, I really hope you can keep it up.

[@DougSharpe]

More new videos posted everyday JAM35 👍

[@jeromemckenna7102]

Quite a few years ago I met a man who was blind. He loved going to the movies and subscribed to cable tv. Judging from his conversation he didn't miss much.

[@Stranger_1899]

Bro is teaseing us with those photos 💀

[@thewitchcoven]

The raw spite dripping from your delivery is priceless

[@misterrhombus]

Bro I'm getting jumpscared with naked women

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

Amd historical celebrities

[@austinschmidt8228]

You remind me of vsauce in terms of very interesting and little known stories, explained well and very engaging Less science based and more culturally focused, which I think is an even better addition to the platform. Could eventually see true 10+ videos with constant never ending stories and facts that connect somehow Love it, keep it up

[@noobethgamingtonthethird]

@ObjectnimationsOSCyeah but thats what makes vsauce fun to watch because you never know what you're gonna get

[@der.Schtefan]

I really like your long form FUNFACT videos

[@amandabeaty1492]

Fun fact! The outfit worn by Dolly Parton in the playboy cover you showed in the thumbnail was designed by Keanu Reeves' mum. He once borrowed it to wear to a Halloween party when he was a teenager in Toronto.

[@rubberneckinc.8937]

That is a Fun Fact.

[@Mroziukz]

Imagine reading braille as a blind person and suddenly out of nowhere you start reading an advertisement.

[@corpsehandler5321]

one of the only groups of people who _legitimately_ only read playboy for the articles

[@sootstainedruby1439]

ya know i was kinda expecting that the pictures were printed textured so they could feel out the pictures or something as the reason but this was more interesting lmao

[@casey6556]

Having worked for a nonprofit providing services to people with vision loss here in Canada, I can confirm that Braille Playboys were popular here too. I had no idea about the significance of Playboy’s journalism or the fight over funding though; that’s quite interesting

[@DefinitelyNotAMachineCultist]

This is peak "don't judge a book by its cover".

[@Veela666]

The original 'I watch it for the plot'.

[@slim7306]

I feel like you're saying "Playboy" over and over again just to include as many half naked women as you can.

[@loganduncan1259]

Doing good works 😂

[@sarveshmunde9846]

The thought of fidel Castro in a playboy mag i can't😂😂

[@jacobkrausch]

The author, Charles Beaumont, has a fascinating biography. He was a prolific author of short stories, wrote many episodes of the twilight zone and genre screenplays. He also died a very strange death, suffering from a “Mysterious illness” that caused him to have a severe cognitive decline in his early thirties and physically aged and weathered his body. Doctors had no conclusive diagnosis. He died at 38 looking like a ninety year old.

[@seanhartnett79]

Interesting. Tell me more.

[@LadyAnuB]

Late-onset progeria?

[@trinstonmichaels7062]

One of the best news outlets in the world.

[@NeoRazor]

Hearing wanton pronounced like wonton really made my day.

[@EyeLean5280]

Playboy also consistently supported feminism and feminist causes. All in all, I enjoyed reading my boyfriend's Playboys, back in the day.

[@Brother_Piner]

You let your boyfriend be a perv and touch himself to other women. That’s pretty sad, but not surprising for someone who believes Playboy did anything but exploit women.

[@6xeros9]

cant tell you how many times i had to go back and pause in this video

[@DougSharpe]

hahaha sorry for that. I've been told me editing style is like watching ADHD happen on a screen

[@6xeros9]

@@DougSharpe i like it and what I meant was my horny ass couldn't let those images pass by without an appreciation lol

[@TaraDobbs]

That last part...HA! Your reaction was priceless. Love your videos. Keep them coming. You make me smile and laugh.

[@robertroberts9563]

At the place I work, I found a box of old Playboys from the 60s-80s. I took them home and have sincerely enjoyed a look into that time period.

[@crazybird199]

That's actually a fascinating story!

[@DougSharpe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@imonit1177]

Keep doing what you are doing exactly the way you are doing it. I love it. Your're like the teacher I wish I always had. And I'm 34 👍

[@DougSharpe]

Thanks l'monit. I really appreciate the kind words. More videos on the way

[@NoahSpurrier]

There were some great articles in Playboy - fiction, interviews, journalism.

[@thin.chungus5554]

Broooo you cant be reading that stuff in public Blind people: what the fuck is reading

[@Transformers2Fan1]

Old but true: if you want your product to get attention, draw it as a pretty woman or put a pretty woman next to it.

[@ZelphTheWebmancer]

These are some very fun and interesting facts I didn't know about. Thx for the video.

[@CannedNoodles]

I was expecting a connection to the clip from Robinhood: Men in Tights where the blind man was “reading” Ye Olde Playboy

[@Mattnoble80]

I have thoroughly enjoyed the stories and interviews written for the magazine

[@wiegnand]

I love these videos so much

[@ryhol5417]

The joke is “I read hustler for the articles”. People really did read playboy for the articles though.

[@piccalillipit9211]

*ABOUT 100X MORE INTERESTING* than I thought it was going to be...!!!

[@zainbinshakir7066]

Thank you for existing

[@Trexdude256]

This guy should do podcasts

[@LividBunny]

PlayBoy based goat.

[@StormyJoe1999]

sir. remember your short vid about pasta trees ? i saw thAT SHOW IN WINDSOR ONTARIO CANADA WHEN I WAS A child. my family fell on the floor laughing because my mom had a pasta machine and we all helped her make pasta for our spagetti night each week. thank you. joe

[@keijimorita1849]

I was always into both the pretty ladies and articles.

[@Jdogrey1]

The origin of "I watch it for the plot."

[@egulio]

The ending is just perfect xD

[@Dstinct]

Years ago Playboy put out a series of hardcovers collecting their interviews based on the people. I grabbed the directors, comedians and 'Movers And Shakers' ones. I highly recommend them if you can find em used for a decent price.

[@bleh5419]

This was so interesting. Also super shocked Dolly was on playboy 😮

[@DougSharpe]

Yea, I probably should have included her interview in the culturally important interview section. Not sure why I didn't.

[@DJ_Force]

People forget that Playboy was marketed as appealing to the sophisticated bachelor. Think James Bond.

[@ahsanbaig8569]

The last 30 seconds of the clip were like the cherry on top 😂

[@rkj5480]

“Reading for the articles” is the retro “reading for plot”?

[@KokkiePiet]

I am as gay as a bus full of Monkeys but always enjoyed reading playboy magazine, and no, reading it, not looking at the photographs. I would say Playboy for most men what later Wired was later for the Internet generation. Well written articles and Journalism.

[@FurryNonsense]

Some of the images flashed way too fast (too many pics for normal words)

[@maximbuchanan5783]

probably to get people to rewind to see the picture properly, increasing retention rates

[@DougSharpe]

Nah just my editing style. If you check out my other video's you'll see the same thing. My editing style had often been described as watching ADHD take place on a screen.

[@FurryNonsense]

@Doug Sharpe Oh dang XD Yeah, I imagine it's great for keeping audience's attention too

[@teologen]

“And this is why I need to have these magazines, mom. It’s for my studies.”

[@SiPakRubah]

Playboy is an interesting magazine the more deeper I go into the rabbit hole

[@impctagent]

Bruh this would be a funny ass school project

[@kcdiazWTV]

The senator should have argued that reading PlayBoy could cause blindness among youths.

[@Ourpleboy]

Before I saw this video I thought somehow they either tried or succeeded in putting those images into braille and in my head I see this blind guy moving his fingers around and then going "DAYUM!"

[@anhduchoang5880]

Blind dude reading Braille Playboy Magazine: Dayum 😮

[@daniellewis9319]

great video!!

[@elimgarak7330]

In the early '80s, my girlfriend would have me buy her Playboy issues because she was too embarrassed to do so. She read the articles. I looked at the pictures.

[@dvs6121]

1:44 the magazine provided "Wonton sex" (wahn-tahn) er, uh, i think you mean "Wanton sex" (wahn-tun) (Wonton is a type of chinese food, (and I'll just leave it there...)

[@Bald_Fred]

How did I not know this about my own community?

[@winslowk4541]

Every time I see your face I feel smarter. Your an amazing man

[@DougSharpe]

Thanks Winslow

[@VishnuSuresh-ud9ry]

that daayum guy must enjoyed it😂😂

[@IcyCubey]

I always thought that your camera was tilted, so seeing that its actually your roof being like that is making my world crumble around me. Edit: wow i suck at typing

[@DougSharpe]

Hahahah yea, I live in an A Frame Hostel

[@boarder6246]

“Back door use of censorship” rings even more strongly nowadays

[@gumiebear6275]

The "hm" at the end tho..

[@octavius654321]

Very interesting closing 😂

[@DaegoPaedilla]

Love the video :D

[@Zeyev]

One of our Federal judges in Sacramento was quoted in an issue about a case involving a pimp. We saved the issue to show to new law clerks. But there were occasional gasps from people who didn't understand why we had an issue of THAT magazine in our office - until we showed them the article.

[@seraphilight]

Just remember where the playboy bunnies came from tho. Really good article with undercover journalism on that gentlemen's club.

[@shittysashimi5184]

this is the ideal length of a video

[@persevalgraal5355]

Like your "HUM" at the and. Says a lot.

[@dermax1027]

What a wild Story.