MoPod Show 2.0 - Gay Comedy Podcast

Remember the story of the princess and the pea? To test the “princessness” of his daughter, the king sets up a stack of mattresses on which she is to sleep. However, there is a twist - he places a pea between two of the mattresses. If she is a TRUE princess, she’ll notice the pea and won’t be able to sleep.

I’m sure some of YOU princesses princes out there can relate in a way. Maybe you had something hidden between your mattresses as you grew up. Although for most, there were some differences between our experience and the princess. She didn’t know it was there. We did. The object PREVENTED her from sleeping. The object HELPED us to sleep and dream. I speak, of course, of dirty magazines. Where I lived the only thing you could get your hands on (and it was no small feat!) was Playgirl Magazine. Page upon page of beautifully airbrushed stallions fueling fantasies and developing twisted notions of what real men look like.

Now, that is all ending. Playgirl magazine, in a move that signals another shift to digital, is shutting down print production and moving their whole operation online.

The revamped Playgirl.com website will feature more videos and pictorials and less editorial content, according to Nicole Caldwell, the magazine’s editor-in-chief.

“Playgirl is going all-Web,” Caldwell said in an email to MediaBistro.com. “The last print issue will be the Jan/Feb 2009 magazine, which comes out Nov. 18.” Playgirl Magazine debuted as the women’s alternative to soft-porn men’s magazines in 1973. Although originally designed with the feminist in mind, the magazine quickly grew a gay male fan base as well.

Just remember. Shoving a laptop between two mattresses could damage it.