Philippine Playboy
Playboy magazine was introduced in the Philippines on Wednesday but without full frontal nudity in deference to the Roman Catholic Church here.
"We're adjusting it to local conditions," the editor in chief, Beting Laygo Dolor, said in an interview.
"If the church gets very angry, you can expect a reaction on the political front, maybe even big business. We don't exist to lock horns with the church."
The Philippine edition is the 25th international franchise of Playboy, which has a global readership of nearly 15 million people, according to Playboy Enterprises. The edition will contain articles and fiction from some of the country's best-known writers, Dolor said.
"We're very much against the exploitation of women in the media in any form," said Zenaida Rotea, executive secretary of the Commission on Women of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines.
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