To: pml1@yahoogroups.com
From: Mark Tomlonson
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 09:19:29 -0400
Subject: [PML1] CC: Carrie Enwright

I know it's hard to believe, but there was a time when the sight of 
female pubic hair was thought to be the definition of obscenity, and as 
such, couldn't be sent through the mail. For the first two decades of 
its existence, Playboy had to come up with some kind of fig leaf. Most 
of the time they did it with elegance, taste and class. Sometimes, like 
in Carrie Enwright's July 1963 centerfold, they didn't.

There's plenty to like - Carrie herself, the colors, the setting, the 
pose - but when your eye travels to that bit of stomach below her navel 
you're reminded of sex. Not in the way Carrie's lovely, sultry gaze 
does, but the way a Catholic nun does when she teaches hygiene class.

It all seems so silly now, like so much of my pre-adolescent and 
neo-adolescent days, but I can remember looking at this centerfold with 
my chums and trying to figure out just how much we were seeing. Ignoring 
Carrie's charms, we were only interested in Carrie's "naughty" bits.

How much we missed! Just as Liv Lindeland should be more than just the 
first pubic hair, Carrie needs to be more than its lack.

Photographer: Ron Vogel

Scoring:
Pin-up: 3.0
Erotic: 3.0
Artistic: 2.0

Overall: 2.8

Cyber Club Portfolio Photo I like better than the Centerfold: #24

http://cyber.playboy.com/members/playmates/files/1963/07/centerfold.html
http://cyber.playboy.com/members/playmates/files/1963/07/24-lrg.html

Mark Tomlonson
Kalamazoo MI