The one that goes wrong. According to information from our colleagues from Le Parisien, Marlène Schiappa, the current Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Associative Life, will soon be on the cover of Playboy. Information confirmed by BFM TV. If the magazine is known for its photos of naked women, the management of the quarterly has made a change of editorial line since 2016 and no longer displays any frontally.
Since the magazine was created in France in 1973, Marlène Schiappa has been the first female politician to make the front page of the magazine. A first which is boasted in the entourage of the Secretary of State, report our colleagues. A very different opinion from that of certain members of other ministerial cabinets. One of the advisors even mentioning a “lunar” blanket. And this while the executive remains entangled in a social crisis born of its pension reform. Anyway, according to our colleagues, Marlène Schiappa was contacted by the magazine for her long-standing commitment to the feminist cause.
For the publisher of the publication, Marlène Schiappa is the “most ‘Playboy compatible'” politician because she is committed to women’s rights and understands that Playboy is no longer a publication for old machos but could instead be an instrument of the feminist cause,” Jean-Christophe Fromentin told Agence France-Presse. “Playboy is no longer a butt journal like it used to be, but a neat and trendy quarterly mook [half book, half magazine, editor’s note] of almost 300 pages”, “there are still a few undressed girls, but it’s not not the bulk of the pagination,” he clarified.
According to an internal source quoted by our colleagues, on four pages, Marlène Schiappa would pose “sexy and rolled up” in a blue-white-red flag. Categorical denial from the side of the government services: “She is dressed and wears a long white dress”, we are assured in the office of the Secretary of State. All before rebelling, the firm arguing that asking this question “shows how far the freedom of women to dispose of their bodies as they see fit is not acquired”.
In addition to these photos, the member of the government – who was Secretary of State for Equality between Women and Men and the Fight against Discrimination during Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term – discusses, during an interview, the question of “the freedom of women”, “feminism” or even “politics and literature”. The mystery on this cover will be completely lifted on April 8, when the next issue of Playboy is due out. As the magazine, whose readership has plummeted, is not a member of the Alliance for Press and Media Figures, it is impossible to know the magazine’s audience.
