Did Playboy portray children with licit or illicit drugs?
A content analysis of 373 Playboy issues yielded 3,045 child images, an average of 8.2 images per issue. Our research on the magazine’s visual and cartoon materials identified 158 (5%) of Playboy’s 3,045 child images associated with the use of drugs or alcohol. 52% (82) of the 158 child images were drug related. More than half of the child visuals included illegal drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and PCP. 48% (76) of the 158 child images were alcohol related. 8. Has Playboy portrayed children in sexual or violent scenes? Although Playboy currently states that they have never portrayed children in sexual encounters with adults, 415 (14%) of the 3,045 images associated children in some sexual scene with adults. In comparison to the 415 child/adult sex associations, a maximum of only 17 images involved the negative health consequences of recreational sex- venereal disease, etc. Included in the 3,045 images were: 21% (646) images associated children with nudity 14% (424) images as
