The always Kla$$y Hugh Hefner and associates have gotten their crotchless panties in a twist over the
Playboy Portugal cover.
The Daily Mail describes the pictures featured in the magazine,
The pictures show a long-haired, glowing Jesus watching two models in a lesbian clinch, standing next to a prostitute and looking over the shoulder of a woman reading a book... The spread was ostensibly a tribute to Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago’s The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, but Hugh Hefner’s headquarters have reacted with outrage.
Theresa Hennessy,
Playboy Enterprises vice president of public relations (aka Lady-in-Waiting when shit hits the fan) said of the cover,
It is a shocking breach of our standards and we would have not allowed it to be published if we had seen it in advance. We are in the process of terminating our agreement with the Portuguese publisher.
That's so not fair! Poor little Portuguese boys won't be able to drool over airbrushed, waxed and ostensibly plastic "women" anymore just because some editor wanted to be the Lady Gaga of adult print entertainment! What-ever! Supposedly
Jose Saragamo, who the photos pay homage to, wanted to depict Jesus as a human being, flaws and all. As a C&E Catholic I don't find this offensive, in fact it's probably one of the most, if not only, provocative and intriguing shoots
Playboy has ever done. (I mean aside from the women of Enron. Come on, that was genius!)
What could make hiding from the Nazis while coming into womanhood more exciting? How about if we made it a comic book?! Well that's exactly was Amsterdam has done with the beloved Diary of Anne Frank. Representatives of the book are saying that they've decided to turn the most popular piece of literature coming out of the Holocaust into a graphic novel to get more kids to read it. Seriously? When I was a little Catholic schoolgirl, growing up in the Village The Diary of Anne Frank was right up there with Are You There God, It's Me Margaret? Seeing the SS in technicolor with little Nazi speech bubbles wouldn't have changed a damn thing for me. But hey, I guess when your whole city is constantly in a haze of pot smoke then you probably won't be able to absorb anything if it's not drawn out for you with minimal description and dialogue.
Via ONTD 
