How to locate a certain fiction story from Playboy's past?

Many years ago I read a story in Playboy magazine that I would like to re-read.
I tried to find its name via Google searches, without success.
Can anyone suggest how to go about locating the story (name)?

The details of the story are:
A grown up is transposed by some scientist's invention into his body as a young boy in the 1950s (concurrently, himself as a young boy is transposed to his older body). Trapped in a young boy's body, he has to cope with a tyrant and abusive father, and with having to go to school. He uses his knowledge of past sporting events' outcomes to gather a small fortune, which he invests in stocks he knows will gain in value when he's a grown-up, and put them in a safe (to be retrieved by his future self). He also invests in a young truck driver from Memphis' singing career. The main story line is his love affair with his primary school teacher, and the story climax is his first sex encounter with her, where he has to solve the problem of satisfying her with his boy's size limbs.

I think Playboy online allows a search but you may have to be a member. Playboy has a great history of talented writers. I believe Kurt Vonnegut contributed just before he passed away.

Might I suggest leafing through all the old copies looking for the story? It may not be the most efficient search method but it may have its little compensations.

#3, I usually forget what I am looking for whenever I do that. ;-)

#4 I usually know exactly what I'm looking for when I do that. ;)

YOU READ THE STORIES ????

I heard somewhere they do great interviews, too.

Isaac Asimov, being the The sensuous, dirty old man that he was, wrote stories for Playboy. This link may help you track one down.

http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t1765.htm

Depending on where you work, possibly NSFW. It shows the covers of each issue.

Eeek , I just noticed #1 ronbarak has very little interaction with LT - no profile etc.. Do ya think we have been had?

"Eeek , I just noticed #1 ronbarak has very little interaction with LT - no profile etc.. Do ya think we have been had?"

I'm of two minds. On the one hand, this person might have found LT and joined simply because they had this question to ask. On the other hand, if you really read the story concept, the ending is kind of perverted sounding - would it really have have been published in Playboy?

However, I made a surprising discovery during my first google search! "The Fly" was originally published in Playboy (June 1957) (of 1958 and 1986 movie fame).

...off to try a different search. Who knows what new trivia I might learn. :-)

EDIT: OK, I'd say the query is legit. I just found the same question posed on another website.
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1165969

Perhaps one could find it in either The Playboy Book of Science Fiction or The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

The TOC for the former is:

Lost city of Mars / Ray Bradbury --
Nine lives / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Deathwatch / Norman Spinrad --
Masks / Damon Knight --
Welcome to the Monkey House / Kurt Vonnegut --
Dead astronaut / J.G. Ballard --
Schematic man / Frederik Pohl --
Can you feel anything when I do this? / Robert Sheckley --
Transit of Earth / Arthur C. Clarke --
Report on the threatened city / Doris Lessing --
Leviathan / Larry Niven --
All the birds come home to roost / Harlan Ellison --
Apotheosis of Myra / Walter Tevis --
Frozen journey / Philip K. Dick --
Gianni / Robert Silverberg --
Word processor / Stephen King --
Interstellar pigeon / Donald E. Westlake --
Heirs of the perisphere / Howard Waldrop --
Earth Station Charley / Billy Crystal --
Slow, slow burn / George Alec Effinger --
More than the sum of his parts / Joe Haldeman --
Sen Yen Babbo & the heavenly host / Chet Williamson --
Fire zone emerald / Lucius Shepard --
Ghost standard / William Tenn --
Office romance / Terry Bisson

The TOC for the latter is:

The Fly by George Langelaan
Blood Brother by Charles Beaumont
Love, Incorporated by Robert Sheckley
A Foot In The Door by Bruce Jay Friedman
The Vacation by Ray Bradbury
The Never Ending Penny by Bernard Wolfe
Bernie The Faust by William Tenn
A Man For The Moon by Leland Webb
The Noise by Ken W. Purdy
The Killer In The TV Set by Bruce Jay Friedman
I Remember Babylon by Arthur C. Clarke
Word Of Honor by Robert Bloch
John Grant's Little Angel by Walt Grove
The Fiend by Frederik Pohl
Hard Bargain by Alan E. Nourse
The Nail And The Oracle by Theodore Sturgeon
After by Henry Slesar
December 28th by Theodore L. Thomas
Spy Story by Robert Sheckley
Punch by Frederik Pohl
The Crooked Man by Charles Beaumont
Who Shall Dwell by H.C. Neal
Double Take by Jack Finney
Examination Day by Henry Slesar
The Mission by Hugh Nissenson
Waste Not, Want Not by John Atherton
The Dot And Dash Bird by Bernard Wolfe
The Sensible Man by Avram Davidson
Souvenir by J.G. Ballard
Puppet Show by Fredric Brown
The Room by Ray Russell
Dial "F" For Frankenstein by Arthur C. Clarke

#11 - At the site I linked to, someone suggested that book. Turns out the poster already has that book and the story isn't in it.

#10: It seems more likely that it was an account made by someone who doesn't want queries about Playboy appearing under his/her regular username. But really, why does it matter?

#11

The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

That title just changed the whole way I've been looking at the Fantasy genre.

Hey, besides looking at the tits of the playboy "bunnies", I did read the articles.
And some of the best SF was showcased there!

#15 And some of the best SF was showcased there!

That's what my son-in-law keeps telling me. He also throws in the comment that there are some really interesting articles in it.

Someone once told me "Wow, you really do read the articles!" after the nth time I had referred to something I'd read in Playboy :)

All depends on whose definition of 'fantasy' you're using.

Many years ago, some friends of mine went to the local market asking vendors of magazines if they had any "adult fantasy", meaning superhero comics, Wierd Tales and so on. They got some very strange reactions and one very vehement outright denial. How were they to know one of the vendors had been recently busted for dealing in kiddie porn?

But #16,

Did he mention how "beautiful" the various "breasts/bosoms/boobs etc." were?

#19 Funny, he never mentioned that.

>18 RobertDay:

Reminds me of the confusion that (still!) sometimes arises of the use of the term "graphic novel"; i.e., the perception that the word "graphic" is being used in the same sense as "graphic sex" or "graphic violence" rather than in the sense of "of or relating to the pictorial arts".

Some of the Graphic Novels can indeed be very "graphic": Lost Girls for example

>22 Papiervisje:

This is true! :D