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The Men Who Spend Hours Talking to Porn Bots— “It’s just nice to feel heard.” (www.playboy.com)

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[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Many say this as a joke but back 25 years ago it really did have interesting articles.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (3 children)

50 years ago, too. A sort of highly respected journalism you can't find anywhere anymore.

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[–] Sergio@piefed.social 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

That reminded me to look up their interview with Saul Alinsky again, and I found a page with a bunch of the Playboy interviews: https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/playboy-interviews/

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[–] Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Oh man that one with Cosby did not age well.

Super cool site dude thanks for sharing this!

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[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 6 points 4 months ago

High times had some good articles back then.

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[–] timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

The New Yorker is still good for long-form journalism, if you've never given it a try it's worth a look.

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[–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Harper's too.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah my straight mom was a subscriber before I was born

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