The senior vice-president of global strategic marketing at Playboy Enterprises argues that her company’s business culture is ‘very progressive’ (Hunt, 2011). Images in Playboy are romantic, respectful, and healthy, and Playboy has been instrumental in defining acceptable boundaries of sexuality. The counter-argument might be that images of scantily clad women or women in bunny costumes are far from progressive.

Question

Have a look at the Playboy websites. What do you think? What evidence would you draw on to support your arguments?