Keep the 'ol lady to yourself 'kay kid? Oh yeah, you got lots 'o class, you got class just oozin' out 'o your ass.

Somewhat skeevily,

Wow. You're just congenitally unable to write a post without some kind of snide judgment on SOMEBODY, aren't you, Rebecca? So it's just disgusting for a husband to be proud of his wife's beauty, isn't it?

And oh, it's just so SAD and AWFUL and DISGUSTING that men want to look at beautiful bodies, isn't it? What to do about the male sex drive? Is there any WAY that we can eradicate this pernicious disease, this horrible condition, this heinous deformity - the male libido? WE MUST ACT NOW!

Is there no story of substance for you to report on, that you have to indulge your prurient taste for scandal? You girls at Broadsheet constantly whine about "stereotypes", yet you indulge in exactly those stereotypes by assuming that a blog on "women's issues" must necessarily include trashy tabloid crap like this.

Susan B. Anthony is spinning in her grave. I can feel the vibrations right through the floor.

Many men and women of 75 are sexual, thriving human beings. Go Shirley! If I'm rockin' it at 75 I'll be right there with her. Our sexuality and humanity are intertwined. By negating the sexuality of our elder Americans, do we negate their core humanity? Do we negate their right to thrive throughout their entire adult lives? Sex is not for the (adult) young & beautiful, or the beautiful. Sex is for all (adult) humans, it is expression and so much more - there should never be a boundary at which we encourage any class or designation of human to not express. That's just our prudish and squeamish and shallow qualms trying to keep sex as nothing other than target-demographic-entertainment. Keep it real, Shirley!!

I'll probably buy that issue.

in this area particularly media just reflects what is already there, or not there. Most people understand that when someone is obsessed with the idea that porn "turns people into", say pedophiles for example, that you probably shouldn't let them babysit your kids. Why is feminist posturing on "porn" not subjected to critical scrutiny.

of course it all depends on how ummm... tastefully it's done. Playboy for all it's self-serving rhetoric about it's support for first amendment rights and helping advance the supposed sexual revolution doesn't really have much cultural cachet anymore unless you're looking to it for hints on pubic grooming trends, so I'm not certain how much relevancy this would have overall and it's possible it would have a real "eeewww!", factor, like running across a boudoir photo of your mom. On the other hand, admitting that age doesn't diminish sexuality would be a healthy thing as I for one am really sick of how we sexualize very young woman as a matter of course in films ,TV and pop music .

Will anything make you happy? If older women are considered useless old crones and swept under the rug, you're pissed. If older women are celebrated as being beautiful and sexy and sexual, you're pissed. Moms considered frumpy and dowdy? Pissed. MILFs? Pissed. Women who are cagey about sex? Pissed. Women who shag on the first date? Pissed.

Please let us know what combination of women, age, and sex will make you not-pissed because we seem to be running out of permutations.

A: They might have actually been relevant 35-40 years ago!

I must say that I derive ongoing amusement from the particularly American:

1) faux outrage about pictures of naked people -- porn OMG!

2) patronizing idea that porn is only filled with exploited victims (both the depicted and the viewer).

3) idea that Playboy is even porn! ;)

I live, thankfully, in a place without such moral confusion -- though some might say no morals: there is a daycare center next to a local adult video supermarket. This bothers no one; a gate to Hell has not appeared next door.

"just another cheap way to sexualize females of all ages?"

oh, that rhetorical question shows such a lack of imagination. actually, I'll bet that airbrushing is expensive!

and, Rebecca, if you haven't noticed, young females have been doing just fine sexualizing themselves: is there any other reason why we should actually pay attention to Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian? Britney Spears was a sexualized-by-others schoolgirl on MTV before she started flashing the paparazzi herself...

and, finally, as a subscriber who is paying *you*, how about giving your opinion rather than just begging us for it!?

Marty Ingels or not, she makes the final call, yes? (If not, maybe something else is terribly wrong.)

And there are beautiful women of every age - and description - in the world. What they choose to do with their beauty is up to them. Our choice in that is to either view or turn away.

But gotta draw the line

At geriatric

Partridge moms.

Knock yourselves out!

Pimp that Partridge tree out Marty..I smell MONEY!

Playboy's interests are entirely prurient. It has never been about celebrating female sexuality at any age. It has always been about male lust. Not that there's anything wrong with lust. But let's call a thing what it is and stop trying to justify it as some empowering celebration of the very thing it's objectifying. If her need to feel good about herself involves becoming masturbatory fodder or satisfying lewd curiosity, then more power to her, I suppose. But a real celebration of female sexuality, at any age, would take place in a different forum.

It's a way for a figure of pop culture nostalgia, who has minimal relevance anymore, to cash in and get some press. If it works and she starts getting more acting roles and suddenly her 'golden' years start to have some literal meaning, then I suppose it's empowering--to her career.

I wish her well.

Because it is perfectly appropriate for a person of any (post-pubescent) age to be sexualized.

I remember some time spent on vacation maybe 25 years ago, in So. France. There was this beach on the Med. Sea where everyone went topless... men, women, children... parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, everyone. Somehow I didn't get the sense that anyone thought that their grandmamere's boobs were erotic objects of desire.

Isn't it time for our culture to grow up and realize that bodies can be beautiful at all ages?