Hefner to the rescue

Trust the Playboy publisher to save the cubicle creature. Here's smut smartly packaged for office

These are difficult times. An editor gets sacked from a news channel in the national capital for a reason as flimsy as watching porn on his laptop.

A CEO in a Gurgaon office is battling a sexual harassment charge for forwarding a 'dirty SMS' to a female colleague during office hours.



And we still have the gall to boast about our freedom of expression.

With 12-hour workdays extending to the wee hours of the morning how is a man supposed to keep a cool head without letting off steam? Not to mention body fluids.

Enter Hugh Hefner, the man who made harem home. And mocked the Smart Suits by turning up in a dressing gown for business meets. He also made a name, and a few millions, selling skin.

Hefner's new offering from the Playboy stable promises to keep men in offices entertained without the anxiety of getting the sack.
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A smartly done up site that has women in various degrees of undress, but not enough to raise the hackles of the HR head or the post-menopausal female colleague.

Here's how the site introduces itself: "Welcome to The Smoking Jacket, Playboy's new safe-for-work site that provides guys with smart and sexy distractions throughout the day.

Like Playmate Kimberly Phillips in nothing but a smoking jacket. Not a bad way to start off the work week, is it?" Definitely not!

Add to it sections like Gemma's biking workout, Boob Job Benefits and How to Get Laid at Work, and you have enough dope to be distracted throughout a boring workday.

The site also provides important tips on getting laid in office without getting caught. "Never Use your Corporate Email: As a rule, IT guys are a lonely, vindictive lot with a lot of time on their hands.
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"Network is down" is just code for "we're reading your e-mails."

Electronic communication is the greatest thing to happen to office romance, but make sure the slow slog from innocuous queries to steamy declarations of raw want is conducted on secure servers, like Gmail or Facebook."
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Advice that would have done the CEO from the Gurgaon office a world of good.

As Anup Kutty, ex-editor of men's magazine Maxim and band member of Menwhopause says: "It's a good thing. Safer than pinching a female colleague in the bottom at least."