happycat wrote:Why do they put brown paper covers on magazines such as Playboy and Maxim
They do?
Not in Europe.. (not anywhere I remember anyway, its not that I go around looking for it).
In Holland, of course they dont - might put it on a higher shelf, but its there for all to see. Ah yes, but Holland, I hear you say. But oddly enough, its here in Hungary that I ended up feeling a bit prudish. They're way more liberal here on that particular count.
I remember three moments in the first few months here that I went, eh? Once when a guy, just a regular guy, was openly leafing through Playboy while walking down the street, without any embarassment. Once when in a cultural-type coffeehouse, where they have plays and comedy nights, the Playboy was randomly part of the reading table, in between news magazines and pop ones. And the third time was when in one of those fancy trendy restaurants on Liszt Square - the whole square is a bit of a mix between tourist trap and hangout for the New Rich, but the place was just a regular cafe/restaurant - the Penthouse was the
only reading material they had. Piles of em in occasional places. Turned out they sponsored the place.
That made me blink, I gotta admit, I mean, what?
But its normal, apparently. Its odd - when it comes to relationships, the whole expected roles men and women are expected to play, they're still unnervingly conservative here. Its like the fifties must have been, like emancipation never happened, or not much below the surface. But then on sex and the like they seem to have jumped ahead of even us Dutch, postcommunism style.
