The Sexes: Drooping Cottontails

"You look old. You have lost your Bunny image," the International Bunny Mother told Patti Colombo, an eleven-year veteran cottontail at the New York Playboy Club. Another aging Bunny, Carmelita Atwell, was told: "You no longer look like the girl next door. You're going into womanhood." With those curt bits of Playboy philosophy, the Misses Colombo and Atwell and two other hutchmates, all over 28, found themselves out in the street.

Like airline stewardesses before them, the fursome foursome fought for their right to grow old in their jobs. Last week they took their case before the New York State Division of...

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