Thursday, September 9, 2010

HOUSTON (AP) -- Suzi Hanks reads Playboy magazine for the articles. And the jokes. And yes, for the pictures.

Each week, for an hour, Hanks snuggles close to a microphone in a tiny soundproof closet, describing in great detail portions of the latest Playboy issue for the blind.

Hanks is a reader at Houston-based Taping For The Blind. The organization has about 200 volunteers like her who read periodicals. The recordings then are broadcast over special radios distributed to several thousand blind people throughout southeast Texas.

Hanks says she reads the magazine from cover to cover and includes description of the photos in her readings. She says it's all done without innuendo and that her voice -- as a woman – is enough to make it sexy.

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