Playboy to stay in suburban library

Playboy magazine will remain available at the public library in Oak Lawn, Ill., despite efforts to ban the adult men's magazine to protect children.

"I was ticked off that some guy might be looking at Playboy when my kids are there," Mark Decker, who asked Playboy be removed from the library, told Thursday's Chicago Tribune.

The father of three said the photographs of undressed women in the publication might provoke child molesters.

Playboy was requested 44 times in 2004. Library officials in the southwest Chicago suburb require proof of age to view the magazine, which is stored in a secure area on the second floor and does not share open shelf space with magazines like Time or Newsweek.

Playboy has been available in the library's collection since 1973.

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