Playboy sorry for nude Virgin Mary cover
Anude model resembling the Virgin Mary on the cover of the Mexican edition of Playboy magazine, prompted the company’s US office to apologise.
LOS ANGELES: A nude model resembling the Virgin Mary on the cover of the Mexican edition of Playboy magazine, published only days before a major Mexican festival dedicated to the mother of Jesus, prompted the company’s US office to apologise.
The magazine, which hit newsstands on December 1 as ceremonies began leading to Friday’s pilgrimage to the Mexico City shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, showed a model wearing nothing but a white cloth over her head and breasts. She is standing in frontof a stained glass window with the cover line, ‘We Love You, Maria’ in Spanish.
Chicago-based Playboy Enterprises Inc said the Mexican edition is published by a licensee, and the firm did not approve or endorse the cover. “While Playboy Mexico never meant for the cover to offend, we recognise that it has created offense, and we as well as Playboy Mexico offer our sincerest apologies,” the statement said.
Raul Sayrols, publisher of Playboy Mexico, said: “The image was never intended to portray the Virgin of Guadalupe or any other religious figure. The intent was to reflect a Renaissance-like mood.”
The magazine, which hit newsstands on December 1 as ceremonies began leading to Friday’s pilgrimage to the Mexico City shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, showed a model wearing nothing but a white cloth over her head and breasts. She is standing in frontof a stained glass window with the cover line, ‘We Love You, Maria’ in Spanish.
Chicago-based Playboy Enterprises Inc said the Mexican edition is published by a licensee, and the firm did not approve or endorse the cover. “While Playboy Mexico never meant for the cover to offend, we recognise that it has created offense, and we as well as Playboy Mexico offer our sincerest apologies,” the statement said.
Raul Sayrols, publisher of Playboy Mexico, said: “The image was never intended to portray the Virgin of Guadalupe or any other religious figure. The intent was to reflect a Renaissance-like mood.”