I’m quoting this appeal for the light it sheds on international variations in pornography. Sending pornography, if you bother, is up to you. Me, I think I would insist on trading for some of that perverted Frenchie stuff, if I still bothered with dead tree porn:

“I don’t know if any of you are aware of this, but I’m in a real mess. As some of you may know, I happen to be in France. And in France, it’s really hard to get a decent porno magazine, that doesn’t cost 20 bucks and doesn’t have horses and shit in it (French people are perverts!!)

This is what I humbly ask, and whether you agree with it or not, please just try to pass the word around:

I’d really like it if somebody would mail me a Playboy. A Hustler even, or one of those mini-magazines that don’t cost as much to mail….”

Thanks to Harvey at Bad Money (that infamous den of rum, buggery, the lash, and pirate pickup lines) for calling this poor expatriate’s plight to my attention.