A simple but clever idea to promote Playboy. I believe these
come from Argentina. Well, I know they're from outside the US anyway. You can see they're red towels made to somewhat
resemble the cover of Playboy, with the "cover girl" being whoever happens to be lying on the towel
at the time. I'm not sure if Playboy actually handed out bikini-clad models to rest on the towels, thought
that would have been quite a promotion. I suppose the images work better than say, seeing some guy use the towel to dry
his armpits. Also, I'm pretty sure when a model appears on the cover of the magazine her legs don't dangle off the
bottom of the page.
Playboy towel promotion
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. I want one! Do you know how I can get one... Too cool!!!!
Posted at 5:10PM on Apr 3rd 2006 by Wendy
3. This is just fuel for our worlds obsession with beauty - a way to let girls know if they are like playboy models they are worthy, and if not - they will not get attention any other way. Idea's like this are why, I wrote my latest book: Mary McCowski was not a Pretty Girl! I want women of the world to know - they have 'other things to offer' besides outside appearance.
Posted at 11:43AM on Apr 4th 2006 by Marsha Marks
4. I'd like to have one. It would give me an incentive to watch my figure, and turn down that late night piece of cake!.....lol
Posted at 11:57AM on Apr 4th 2006 by Sandy
5. Who is Mary McCowski and if she isn't pretty why would we want to read about her?
Posted at 12:08PM on Apr 4th 2006 by Paul
6. Playboy and other venues like it is the reason women starve themselves in persuit of the accepted perfect body. It is also the reason the USA will never be as body acceptance as Europe. And the main reason Men look at women as sex objects instead of people with a mind and feelings. and until we get over this obssession with sex, we'll never be as good as Europe in the body acceptance. Women are beautiful just as they are, Just as God has created them. Look into her mind, and heart. Not how curvy she is.
Posted at 12:13PM on Apr 4th 2006 by Joseph (Doc) Renshaw
7. Oh POO on Marsha's remark! I'm with Sandy .... I need more incentive! I want one!
Posted at 12:53PM on Apr 4th 2006 by Patrice
8. I want one, too!! I agree America is obsessed with skinny little stick figures, but I don't have one and I don't care. I'd like to be a little smaller for my sake, but I have it and it's in all the right places!! Now I want to fit it on the towel and show ya what SHOULD be on the front of that magazine!!
Posted at 1:32PM on Apr 4th 2006 by SanDee
9. This towel is disgusting. It will simply make young girls who are 10 and 12 years of age want one, and then want to be like the women in the magazine. Is that what we want for our youth? Why can we not, as a community, for once emphasize inner beauty rather than the physical attributes of a person? This goes for both men and women! American intelligence is on a steep decline. People no longer care about being intelligent, or even picking up a freaking book! It's as if you don't matter unless you're thin and pretty. It's just so sad. Did no one love you as a child??
Posted at 1:43PM on Apr 4th 2006 by Catie
10. This towel is disgusting. It will simply make young girls who are 10 and 12 years of age want one, and then want to be like the women in the magazine. Is that what we want for our youth? Why can we not, as a community, for once emphasize inner beauty rather than the physical attributes of a person? This goes for both men and women! American intelligence is on a steep decline. People no longer care about being intelligent, or even picking up a freaking book! It's as if you don't matter unless you're thin and pretty. It's just so sad. Did no one love you as a child??
Posted at 1:44PM on Apr 4th 2006 by Catie
11. It's a beach towel. That's it. It is not a reflection of society and feeling towards women. It is simply a beach towel and if you are looking at it as more than that, well than I weep for you and your sad little life.
Posted at 1:51PM on Apr 4th 2006 by Toby
12. Haha - I agree with Paul! Let me guess, Ms. Marsha Marks here is not a pretty girl either. Aw, so sad. I think the towel is a fun idea and anyone with self-confidence can rock it whether she (or he!) is lean, curvy, or even pregnant! By the way, Ms. Marks, I am a CPA with an IQ of 140 and a mother of two. I don't need to read a book to know I have "other things to offer". Your title reeks of self-pity and implies that a woman should find her worth in other traits instead of realizing that she really is a beautiful creature inside AND out.
Posted at 2:03PM on Apr 4th 2006 by Desiree
13. actually, eating disorders have risen everywhere, including europe and latin america. people are obsessed with their bodies almost everywhere now and this just adds to that obsession. i dont know what its going to take until people actually see it as a problem.. young girls are getting breast implants and other surgeries in the name of beauty and us women dont help when we look in the mirror and dont like what we see. dont just blame it on men. men actually dont have the best views of themselves either. we all suffer from it.
Posted at 2:10PM on Apr 4th 2006 by Mimi
14. Hey Joe Doc, Why should we care what Europe thinks about our perception of the female form, they don't have to sleep with it. Hey Marsha, just because you can string a bunch of self loathing inflected words together to form a sentence, that self righteous ranting is no substitution for intellect. Hey Desiree, your the best, love to chat sometime.
Posted at 2:24PM on Apr 4th 2006 by Paul
15. ok ok ok. i understand everyone's concerns about beauty and how the world is crumbling around our feet because of the obsession... but isn't it ok to kick up those feet once in a while and have a good laugh at a GREAT advertising campaign? it isn't the beach towel that is causing girls to starve themselves or enhance their clevage... it's the lack of support from family and friends.
plus it's been proven that obesity is on the rise in america... so get off that beach towel and go for a run (not so that you're beautiful and skinny but so that you're HEALTHY! it's always a better option!
Posted at 2:42PM on Apr 4th 2006 by trtlflwrs
16. With all the problems we have as individuals, the problems we have collectively as a nation, and the problems we have in the world, is it really that damaging if a woman wants to lay on a "Playboy" towel? If a woman feels like she belongs in the centerfold, let her be proud and make this silent statement! Or are we so left-of-center that we are afraid to display confidence? Is it that we are scared to hurt other peoples' feelings because they might not see themeselves the same way? Good grief people, it's not that serious! Now, if women start laying on Eagles or Cowboys towels while at Seaside Heights...then we've got problems!
Posted at 2:56PM on Apr 4th 2006 by Joshua
17. I am a mother of four...divorced...have a genius IQ...AND want one of those towels! By mainstream beauty standards I am NOT what is considered beautiful b/c I am not white, not thin...but best believe I am worthy to be a centerfold...some people will always take things to the extreme...won't ever pose for Playboy, but would like one of those towels! ^-^
18. I am a mother of four...divorced...have a genius IQ...AND
want one of
those towels! By mainstream beauty standards I am NOT what is
considered beautiful b/c I am not white, not thin...but best believe
I am worthy to be a centerfold...some people will always take things
to the extreme...it is not that serious! I won't ever pose for Playboy, but would like one of
those towels! ^-^
19. what is so great about playboy? There are a ton of other magazines that have better looking women---Maxim,Gent, Stuff, etc
Also Hugh Hefners girlfriends are a joke.
Posted at 5:29PM on Apr 4th 2006 by lisa dergan
20. I would like to know how I can grace the cover of Playboy, I have the look, I just need to know what to do.
Thanks,
Anybody that knows, let me know
Posted at 5:46PM on Apr 4th 2006 by Lydia
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1. That is one hell of a strategy... I loved it...don't ask me what..
Posted at 4:02AM on Apr 3rd 2006 by Gates