JUST IN TIME FOR A CHRISTMAS CONTROVERSY
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

The Mexican edition of Playboy magazine has stirred up major religious groups by putting a nude model resembling the Virgin Mary on the cover.
The virgin mary on Playboy in December?
The magazine was released on December 1, just days before the Mexican’s pilgrimage to the Mexico City shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
On the cover, the Virgin Mary lookalike is seen wearing nothing more than a white cloth over her head and breasts, standing in front of a stained glass window, and with the cover line “We Love You, Maria” in Spanish.
This issue is definitely going to be a collector’s item. So I suggest you grab a copy before they run out of prints!
Since the release, the cover has caused outrage and prompted Playboy’s U.S. headquarters to apologize.
They apologized through a statement saying that Playboy Enterprises Inc, only issued a license to the publisher of the Mexican edition and that they do not have the ‘rights’ over the magazine. In other words, they did not approve or endorse the cover.
Yeah right!
PUBLICITY STUNT!
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