Comment of the Week: Buy Playboy, support charity

In response to Amy’s post about donating to a Jewish infertility organization an Anonymous comment suggested:

An easy way to support the cause is to purchase Playboy's recent issue that features Cindy Margolis (described as of Jewish heritage). She has pledged to donate her earnings from posing to infertility charities.

So let me first say that while I certainly support infertility research, I really don’t think the best way to do that is by buying porn. That said, I did some research on Margolis (who’s definitely a Jewess, and is married to a guy named Guy Starkman, who I bet is also a Jew), and she actually sounds like a pretty cool chick. Fertility Today has a nice profile of Margolis (it describes her as “a host, spokesperson, actress, model, author and mother who happens to be America's #1 rated celebrity Web site” which is confusing because I assume she herself is not a website, but I’m being picky). Or you could go straight to Margolis’s personal website, where you can find about a hundred pictures of her cleavage, and a section called Girl Talk where she writes pretty candidly about her struggle with infertility. I kind of expected to think she was an idiot (we all know how I feel about porn) but she comes across as sympathetic and bright. If you’re interested in Jewish infertility I suggest Project Genesis blog (subtitle: the act of creation requires me, my husband, G-d, and a whole lotta technology), What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting, and Bikkurim. I’m also a big fan of the infertility posts at This Woman’s Work (not heavily Jewish, but completely great). But thanks, Anonymous, for reminding us that even “America's #1 rated celebrity Web site” can have fertility problems.