Playboy USA Repents For Nude Virgin Mary Cover, Playboy Mexico Says Whaaaaat?
13 December 2008, 8:55 PM. By Anastasia Hinojosa
The American publishers of Playboy magazine, ensconced in their giant snow bunny tower somewhere over Chicago, have issued an apology to Catholics everywhere for the Mexican Playboy issue that hit newsstands last week with Maria Florencia Onori on the cover wearing nothing but a veil and a come-hither look in her eyes. The headline reads, “Te Adoramos, Maria,” (We Adore You, Mary), but Playboy Mexico publisher Raul Sayrols, a licensee who the American corporation claims did not get their permission, says their intention was never to portray her as the Virgen de Guadalupe. So, she’s the Virgen de Titicaca? Or The Grand Tetons? Or Machupichu? We could go on. (La Santa Sierra Madre? Sorry.)
The cover was also perfectly timed to arrive on the stands just days before the feast of the Immaculate Conception and the feast of the Virgen De Guadalupe which is the biggest religious holiday in Mexico, not to mention one of the biggest religious holidays in the world. So, you know, you’re not fooling anyone, Raul. Just own that marketing genius. After all, you printed 100, 000 copies of your “Renaissance-like” cover. And cash is the one item of worship everyone can agree on.
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Playboy probably got the idea from the new blasphemous book by Charles Webb. “Sex with THE Virgin Mary” published by thekickasspress.com mocks every tenet of the
Church.
is wrong to put la virgen nude because it was jessus human mother but this shows people not to pray or believe on images she is not a saint
@miguel: i think the “sanctity” [not intended as a boob pun, but here we are] of catholicism is pretty secure. as far as i know, playboy isn’t the go-to magazine for religious bearing. it would be pretty sad if la virgen could be destroyed by a photo shoot.
i love la virgen as an icon, and i can appreciate when liberties are taken with the image, even if it is just to make a buck.
Download magazine and I was not so outrageous it makes me those photos, if not judge for yourselves having to think, they can download the publication entering website http://www.playboy.com.mx/