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FOUND PORN
The Herald goes south
BY MARK JURKOWITZ
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As great moments in media exposure go, it may quite not rank up there with with Paula Kelly, the dancer and actress who gained fame as the first woman to reveal pubic hair in Playboy magazine (August 1969). But on the other hand, Playboy isn’t a family publication like the Sunday Boston Herald purports to be. But there gracing the left side of the front page in the July 17 Herald in living color (and then reproduced on page 7 in black and white) was the photo of a young bikini-clad woman stretching out on a beach — and in the process, revealing several wisps of pubic hair. (The story that happened to accompany the photo ranked the quality of local beaches.) True, the Herald has spiced up its pages with a more flashy and fleshy tabloid approach in recent years. But no one expects exposed nether regions showing up with the Sunday-morning coffee. Herald managing editor Kevin Convey admits the paper screwed up. "It was a mistake. We’re red-faced and apologetic to the readers we offended," he says, blaming the error on better-than-expected printing quality. "We were quite certain this was not going to turn up in our reproduction." Although many sharp-eyed readers doubtless saw the groundbreaking photo — which made it into about 15,000 copies in the first edition before it was airbrushed for later editions — Convey said the paper received only a handful of complaints.
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