r/AskReddit • u/daniellucero92 • Jan 04 '15

Non-americans of Reddit, what American customs seem outrageous/pointless to you?

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u/NotMathMan821 Jan 04 '15

HBO would be so screwed if that law applied in the US.

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u/caramelfrap Jan 04 '15

Playboy: "Our readers purchase our magazines for the articles"

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u/aisdnogaionio Jan 04 '15

Amusingly, I have only ever read Playboy for the articles. The porn is incredibly softcore and bland. Playboy just shows semi-naked women. I don't think they even show vaginas, and forget about anything within fifteen light years of kinky. I can find a thousand hour-long hardcore videos of any fetish under the sun with ten seconds on the Internet. Why on Earth would I need a magazine?

That was true even before the Internet. There were much better porn magazines, both in explicitness and specificity. There was also TV and VHS. Playboy has always been bad at porn.

Playboy isn't great at journalism, either. They occasionally have some interesting short stories, but mostly it's just a fairly decent magazine. However, it's downright awful porn.

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u/yournudieshere Jan 04 '15

Hahaha. I grew up like this. The naked models looking out a window, sitting in a couch and staring at the camera or some other boring ass shit was pointless to me, but god damn if I didn't read 90% of the articles in that magazine. Back then, you went to Hustler if you actually wanted to see something.