Playboy has standards? Apparently it does:

Playboy magazine is to pull the plug on its Portuguese edition after it ran a photo shoot featuring Jesus Christ among topless models.

The spread was ostensibly a tribute to Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago’s The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, but Hugh Hefner’s headquarters have reacted with outrage.

The pictures show a long-haired, glowing Jesus watching two models in a lesbian clinch, standing next to a prostitute and looking over the shoulder of a woman reading a book.

‘It is a shocking breach of our standards and we would have not allowed it to be published if we had seen it in advance.

Presumably Hugh Hefner doesn’t want to lose his Southern Baptist customer base.