well, once again I'm different than most. Playboy, (as far as skin mags go), is the most conservative of all of them. I would ABSOLUTELY encourage my girl/wife to do it if that was what she wanted. You can't really liken it to being a stripper because strippers are at the club every night rubbing thier tits on guys' heads, whereas a woman who poses in playboy once is not. If it were an offer to pose in one of those mags that she has to lay spread eagle with a dildo in her ass, that's a whole different story. Society is way too hung up on nudity. I don't care if another guy fantasizes about my girl. In fact, I find it quite flattering when other people find her attractive.
Jen, if your friend's bf won't "let" her pose, tell her to ask him why, and then check her fingers for a ring... He does not own her, and bottom line, if she wants to do it, and she doesn't, she'll probably regret NOT doing it long after this boyfriend is a fading memory. Tell her to go for it, and if he can't handle it, tell him to go pound sand. There's plenty of decent guys out there that don't have those immature hang-ups...