It is very weird when it's usually so second nature for him to just grab a handkerchief to touch things.

Though I don't think the Playboy would be any real danger. It's a magazine inside a drawer, and a Playboy, several years old. It's made to be thumbed through by whoever picks it up, and I don't even know how clear fingerprints would be from holding it anyway. Probably partial smears most of the time at best. If they did dust for prints I don't think they'd be dusting that.