July 10, 2008 | 11 Comments

Playboy’s Hottest Blogger Contest: You’re All Winners! (Even If Some Of You Have Bigger Racks Than Others)

Since one of the contestants in Playboy’s curiously opportunistic Web’s Hottest Blogger contest (as if people would be blogging anywhere else?) is on the Fleshbot masthead and at least one or two others are confirmed friends of ours, we’re not exactly in the most neutral position to tell you who to vote for. So we’ll just try to be as objective as possible and recommend you support the blogger who’s showing the most cleavage in her photo … even if it does happen to be the blogger who happens to be on the Fleshbot masthead. Hey, all’s fair in sex and blogging. And boobs. (playboy.com)

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  • Lux Alptraum

    My favorite part of this contest is that Playboy promises they’ll ask the winner to do a shoot. Not that the winner will actually follow through… but that they’ll ask.

  • Anonymous

    but how COULD they promise that? I mean isnt it kind of the persons decision to choose whether or not they want to accept the “honor”. I mean if theyre in a somewhat public news medium it could be the end of their career.

  • Lux Alptraum

    @weems: Well, they could promise it if they’d gotten consent from all of the bloggers in the contest prior to opening voting.

  • hodayathink is walking in the glow of love

    @Lux Nightmare: That’s just…

    It’s not even really bad. It’s sad. It shows the level that Playboy has fallen. That they aren’t even sure they can get a bunch of web/TV personalities to do a shoot for them. My guess is that they’re probably hoping that the winner is so flattered by the vote that they may be persuaded to do it. And didn’t they say they were open to doing non-nudity shoots a few years ago to combat all the stars they were probably losing to FHM/Maxim/etc.?

  • I.M.B.Y What’s THIS for…!

    Doing a shoot and printing the results might be two different things.

  • dirtybacon

    I think Violet should do a pictorial for Fleshbot first, before Playboy! (see Lux, I’m still trying. You might have bowed out, but I might get others yet…)

  • Anonymous

    She got my vote, anyway.

  • balancepoint

    Forget everyone else – the only contest in the Playboy vote is the one between Miss Violet and Xeni…

  • Anonymous

    yeah they might actually do it :)

  • Turboner

    I wouldn’t mind seeing more of Violet…

  • Come a little Miroslav Klose You’re My Kind of Man

    @Lux Nightmare: They did the same for “hottest sideline reporter” — Jill Arrington declined, prolly to maintain some sense of professional integrity, but considering we ask “where is she, now?”, doing a shoot & taking the money would have been advisible — & “hottest” rocker — Neko Case also declined.

    As it goes, these “hottest [insert occupation]” web-polls by Playboy are not to be construed as equal to their “Girls of Wal-Mart”, “Women of Hooters”, etc. In those cases, they actively pursue individuals to pose for a pictorial. With “hottest blogger”, they are just trying to gallvanize their readership, & maybe score a celeb. pictorial when all shakes out.

    So, has Playboy reached a new low? Not really.