NEWS: The Return of the Playboy Club

CULTURE: The Return of the Playboy Club

Once upon a time, Playboy bunnies roamed free and served drinks. Then, much like Betamax, they vanished. A nation wept.

Eighteen years later, the Playboy club is back and in Las Vegas. The Palms Casino and Resort has opened the first Playboy club in the U.S., bringing back an era of casual sex, playful nudity and men ogling satin-eared, fluffy-tailed waitresses.

Unlike the Playboy clubs of yore, the new nightspot isn’t managed by Playboy Enterprises but by the casino. Even the 50 bunnies working there were selected by the Palms.

Additional Playboy clubs are expected to open at casinos in London and Macao.


Employees being schooled in bunnydom


Inside the private villa but, sadly, without the rotating bed


A Playboy club back in the day

Hello!

ok, guess it's time to save up about 200 grand. what a load of crap, everything is always for the rich and never the common man.

I'm scared of bunnies anyway so even if I could afford it I wouldn't.

Yeah right.

Actually, isn't that why Larry Flynt started Hustler? I bet you would enjoy one of the many Hustler clubs or stores around the world.

Beware the hairy Palms!

It just won't be the same with out Quaaludes...

good to see em back, but sad to see it's not opped by PBE

Woohoo! Bring on the London club!

wow so we're POST-feminist era now......

*whew* glad you women got past that whole equality thing..... it was really puttin a crimp in the fun

so go make me a sandwich now

don't make me ask twice

i remember there used to be a Playboy Club in Atlantic City. my father always used to bring me back shirts from their gift shop, which i promptly wore to school, elementary school

If this is anything like Return of the Sith, you might as well shut them all down.

That's part of the draw. Why did people want to get into Studio 54 so badly? Because they couldn't.

Playboy is such a joke, a caricature of what it used to be. This was my favorite quote of the article, "The company that once provided a generation of men with a blueprint to a swinging lifestyle got stuck in middle age".

Hef is now a reality TV star, pawing his 3 blonde girlfriends with those gnarled, sepulchral hands of his, a Viagra-powered Crypt Keeper trying to hold the shambles of his empire together. What's next? The "accidental" release of a sex tape featuring Hef, his 3 blonde girlfriends, and a goat?

Even the magazine isn't worth a crap anymore (and yes, I was a subscriber up until Hurricane Katrina). The pictures of the parties @ Hef's Mansion feature a lot of Z-Grade stars. It's full of "Check out this program on Playboy TV", or "Subscribe to the Cyber Club". With the exception of some still great interviews and fiction excerpts, the magazine is mostly just a sad reminder of the glory that was the Playboy Lifestyle.

*cry* I've wanted to be a Playboy Playmate since I was 13, until I openned a modern Playboy and realized that I wanted to be the 1960's/70's version. Alas!

good for them. no really. I'm serious.

if it opens over here i'm going

Check out Miss August -- not to pimp another nudie publication, here, if that's a faux pas, though -- because she has real, live pubic hair. A lot. I was enthralled upon glimpsing it.

Miss April did as well; grown out, even if shaved down (like a close-crop haircut, but for your pubis).

I find this is a little sad. Perhaps unreasonably. Safe, corporate decadence. Better that Le Sphinx returned.

Me 2!