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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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[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I always read it for the articles

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 3 points 3 hours ago

High times had some good articles back then.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 2 points 4 hours ago

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/