Many women have benefited from posing in Playboy

To the Editor: Debbie Carbonaro '97 seems to think that Playboy "is contributing to an industry whose sole purpose is the sale of women's bodies," ("The Importance of Rejecting Playboy," April 12, 1995.) She fails to see other points, firstly, that every woman that has been a centerfold in the recent past has received large amounts of cash and has had many doors opened [to] the fashion and entertainment industries. She states that "it seems extremely difficult to view a woman as a commodity one day and then go to work or school the next day and treat her as an equal." Perhaps she might not see this as good because these women are relying on their bodies as opposed to their intellects in such situations to succeed.