Really quickly I’d like to tell you, Constant Reader, that Playboy doesn’t produce hardcore porn. Their subsidiaries, which the company completely owns in their entirety, produce all of the hardcore titles.

Yes, I find this as silly as you do, but a clarification request was made. Playboy wants to keep the bunny image as softcore. God knows they’d possibly lose some of their fan base if people knew that > Playboy is a > PORN company.

For those who you who wonder what the difference is between hardcore porn and softcore porn let me try to explain. I say TRY, because the lines are apparently a few shades of grey. I was a producer in the business for a long time, yet after the conversation I had today I am a bit confused myself.

Two people having sex with graphic depictions, zooming in on insertion or on one person stimulating the other? Hardcore.

Two people appearing to have sex but no insertion being shown? Softcore, I guess. I say “I guess” because today I’ve been informed that Playboy doesn’t produce “hardcore” porn. And since I’ve seen videos for sale in the Playboy store that depict interaction between two people, videos that have the Bunny stamped on them, yet don’t zoom in on the “business area” while the couple is having sex… well, after today’s conversation I now know that must be softcore porn.

See, I have always been under the assumption that softcore porn involved a model alone, and hardcore involved that model with another person, male or female. Silly me. I apologize for my ignorance.

That hardcore lesbian content I referenced in other posts that we were asked to shoot? That was to be released under the name of one of the companies that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Playboy Enterprises, Inc, but wouldn’t have the Bunny stamped on the cover of the DVDs. Even though the performance of said company affects the stock price of Playboy Enterprises, Inc and even though one can look said company up on Yahoo and find public record that Playboy owns 100% of said company… well, all that matters is that you readers must be made aware that PLAYBOY doesn’t produce HARDCORE content.

SOOOOO… I’ve now told ya. You’ve been informed.

Confused? Me too.