In what year did Playboy Magazine come out
"1955 that Greenleaf published the first issue of ""Rogue"" (although it had a cover date of December), a magazine which was competitive with ""Playboy"", a magazine dealing with sex which had been published for about two years at this time. In 1953, as a solo and unidentified effort, Hugh Hefner's ""Playboy"" V1#1 appeared without a date late in the year [November]. It was an almost immediate success with that calendar photo of Marilyn Monroe being reused to its best advantage. About ""Playboy"" and Hugh Hefner, Hamling states in a letter to his friend, and lawyer, Stanley Fleishman: ""I remember my"
"calendar rather than for ""Playboy"". Hefner chose what he deemed the ""sexiest"" image, a previously unused nude study of Marilyn stretched with an upraised arm on a red velvet background with closed eyes and mouth open. The heavy promotion centered around Marilyn's nudity on the already-famous calendar, together with the teasers in marketing, made the new Playboy magazine a success. The first issue sold out in weeks. Known circulation was 53,991. The cover price was 50¢. Copies of the first issue in mint to near mint condition sold for over $5,000 in 2002. The novel ""Fahrenheit 451"", by Ray Bradbury,"
"Hugh Hefner Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher and life-stylist. He was founder and editor-in-chief of ""Playboy"" magazine, a revolutionary publication, aimed at a sophisticated young readership, with revealing glamour photographs and sensational articles provoking charges of obscenity. The first issue, in 1953, featuring Marilyn Monroe in her nude calendar shoot, sold over 50,000 copies. Hefner extended the brand into a world network of Playboy Clubs, as well as his own luxury mansions where the Playboy ‘playmates’ shared his wild partying life, keenly reported in the media. An advocate of sexual"
"Playboy Special Edition Playboy Special Editions (formerly known as ""flats"", then Newsstand Specials) are a spin-off series of ""Playboy"" magazine containing glamour and softcore nude photographs. The initially infrequent and later semi-regular editions ran from 1964 until the publication of the final issues in 2012. Unlike the monthly magazine, which features a variety of articles, opinion columns, and works of fiction, only minimal text was included in the Special Editions, mostly consisting of captions of the photographs and readers' letters. Two issues were usually published each month. While the magazines often featured former Playmates of the Month, many other models"
"March 1990, May 2001 and January 2005; Scheila: February 1998, September 1999, November 2000, December 2001, April 2009). The best-selling issue is the December 1999 issue with Joana Prado ""Feiticeira"" in the cover, with 1.25 million magazines sold. In 2015, the fortieth year of publication, Abril dedided to stop publishing ""Playboy"" due to costs given the diminishing circulation could not offset the licensing royalties. Eventually a new deal was set with PBB Entertainment to relaunch the publication starting in March 2016. Playboy (Brazil) The Brazilian edition of ""Playboy"" is a local franchise of ""Playboy"" magazine. Established in 1975 by Editora"
"to ""Vanity Fair"" as opposed to more traditional competitors ""GQ"" and ""Maxim"". Playboy announced in February 2017, however, that the dropping of nudity had been a mistake, and furthermore for its March/April issue reestablished some of its franchises, including The Playboy Philosophy and Party Jokes, but dropped the subtitle ""Entertainment for Men"" inasmuch as gender roles have evolved. The announcement was made by the company's chief creative officer on Twitter with the hashtag #NakedIsNormal. In 2017 the magazine announced it would become a bi-monthly publication. In early 2018, and according to Jim Puzzanghera of the ""Los Angeles Times"", ""Playboy"" was"
"American men's magazine ""Playboy"", as a challenge. He considered the magazine more than ""pornography"", describing it as home to ""edgy and award-winning journalism pieces"" which he wanted to bring to Indonesia. Arnada entered discussions with Christie Hefner, then head of Playboy Enterprises, in November 2005. He received permission to publish an Indonesian edition the next January. The first issue was launched in April 2006 and did not feature any nudity or focus on sexuality. Instead, the models were fully clothed; the issue also included an interview with author Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Later articles continued to deal with literature, as well"
"Hefner founded Playboy, a magazine which aimed to target males between the ages of 21 and 45. The coverpage and nude centerfold in the first edition featured Marilyn Monroe, then a rising sex symbol. The pictures were taken when Monroe was an unknown struggling actress and she received $50 for the photo shoot. The photographs were published without her consent and she received no further compensation from Playboy. Featuring cartoons, interviews, short fiction, Hefner ""Playboy Philosophy"" and - most crucially - half-naked female ""Playmates"" posing provocatively, the magazine became immensely successful. In 1960, Hefner decided to expand his enterprise and"
"the magazine. On July 15, ""Penthouse"" owner FriendFinder Networks Inc. offered $210 million (the company is valued at $185 million), though Hefner, who already owned 70 percent of voting stock, did not want to sell. In January 2011, the publisher of ""Playboy"" magazine agreed to an offer by Hefner to take the company private for $6.15 per share, an 18 percent premium over the price of the last previous day of trading. The buyout was completed in March 2011. In October 2015, Playboy announced that starting with their March 2016 issue, the magazine would no longer feature full frontal nudity."
"reportedly ""considering killing the print magazine,"" as the publication ""has lost as much as $7 million annually in recent years."" However, in the July/August 2018 issue a reader asked if the print magazine would discontinue, and Playboy responded that it was not going anywhere. In September of 2018 the magazine announced it would move to publishing quarterly beginning in 2019. The best-selling ""Playboy"" edition was the November 1972 edition, which sold 7,161,561 copies. One-quarter of all American college men were buying or subscribing to the magazine every month. On the cover was model Pam Rawlings, photographed by Rowland Scherman. Perhaps"
"to fundamentally respect women, and women realise that they have the power to present themselves as empowered, fully capable people, raunch culture may moan its last and final faked orgasm."" Playboy, an American magazine company that features photographs of nude women, was founded by Hugh Hefner, but is primarily run by women. Among these women is Hefner’s daughter, Christie Hefner, the chairman and CEO of Playboy Enterprises. The images displayed in Playboy are sometimes accompanied by brief biographies of the models; however, the focus is on the models’ sexualized bodies. Not all of the women who have appeared in the"
"Trump Magazine. As of 2007, the Publishing division accounted for nearly 30% of the revenue of the Playboy Enterprises. In 2005, the company began producing Playboy Digital which is an exact duplicate of the print version of the magazine. Its initial launch started with 15,000 subscriptions. This is very different from Playboy Online, which produces original content. In 2005, Playboy began print editions in Argentina, Slovakia, and Ukraine bringing the number of international editions to 20. In March 2011, founder Hugh Hefner succeeded in a bid to take Playboy private after 40 years as a publicly traded company. He partnered"
"The Playboy The Playboy is a graphic novel by Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown, serialized in 1990 in Brown's comic book ""Yummy Fur"" and collected in different revised book editions in 1992 and 2013. It deals with Brown's guilt and anxiety over his obsessive masturbation to ""Playboy"" Playmate models. The story begins with Brown's first purchase of an issue of ""Playboy"" as a teenager. His obsessive masturbating gives him great guilt and anxiety, and out of fear of being caught he repeatedly rids himself of copies of the magazine, only to retrieve them later. His conflicting emotions follow him into adulthood"
"Hefner left his job as a copywriter for ""Esquire"" after he was denied a $5 raise. In 1953, he took out a mortgage, generating a bank loan of $600, and raised $8,000 from 45 investors, including $1,000 from his mother (""Not because she believed in the venture,"" he told ""E!"" in 2006, ""but because she believed in her son.""), to launch ""Playboy"", which was initially going to be called ""Stag Party"". The first issue, published in December 1953, featured Marilyn Monroe from her 1949 nude calendar shoot and sold over 50,000 copies. (Hefner, who never met Monroe, bought the crypt"
"by the late 1970s the company was in control of half of the adult magazine market, including major titles such as ""Playbirds"", ""Whitehouse"", ""Rustler"" and ""Raider"". Paul Raymond launched in the UK ""Men Only"" in 1971, and then ""Club International"" in 1972. Paul Raymond Publications launched ""Escort"" in 1980 in the UK, ""Razzle"" in 1983 and ""Men's World"" in 1988. Publishing group Northern & Shell obtained the licence to publish ""Penthouse"" in the United Kingdom in 1983, which led to them subsequently publishing a range of 45 adult magazine titles, including ""Asian Babes"" launched in 1992. An attempt to open"
"Oui (magazine) Oui was a men's adult pornographic magazine published in the United States and featuring explicit nude photographs of models, with full page pin-ups, centerfolds, interviews and other articles, and cartoons. ""Oui"" ceased publication in 2007. (""Oui"" is French for ""yes"".) ""Oui"" was originally published in France under the name ""Lui"" by Daniel Filipacchi (first French issue November 1963), as a French equivalent of ""Playboy"". In 1972, Playboy Enterprises purchased the rights for a U.S. edition, changing the name to ""Oui"", and the first issue was published in October of that year. Jon Carroll, formerly assistant editor at ""Rolling"
"and high-profile events that embody both “eroticism and fine art.” The Playboy rabbit logo is one of the most widely recognized and popular brands in the world. Sales of ""Playboy"" magazine peaked in 1972 at over 7 million copies. By 2015 the circulation had fallen to 800,000. The company now derives over 40 percent of its revenues from its media division, and about half of the revenue comes from the licensing of consumer products. Playboy Enterprises, Inc. is based in Beverly Hills, California, having closed its former headquarters in the top office floors of 680 N. Lake Shore Drive in"
"Playgirl Playgirl is an American magazine that features general interest articles, lifestyle and celebrity news, in addition to semi-nude or fully nude men. In the 1970s and 1980s, the magazine printed monthly and was marketed mainly to women, although it had a significant gay male readership in a period in which gay male erotic magazines were few. The magazine was founded in 1973 by Douglas Lambert during the height of the feminist movement as a response to erotic men's magazines such as ""Playboy"" and ""Penthouse"" that featured similar photos of women. In 1977 Lambert sold ""Playgirl"" to Ira Ritter who"
"of five."" The Greenleaf Publishing Company initially published science fiction magazines and a spectrum of similar publications, and it was not until November 1955 that Greenleaf published the first issue of ""Rogue"" (although it had a cover date of December), a magazine which was competitive with ""Playboy"", a magazine dealing with sex which had been published for about two years at this time. In 1953, as a solo and unidentified effort, Hugh Hefner's ""Playboy"" V1#1 appeared without a date late in the year [November]. It was an almost immediate success with that wonderful calendar photo of Marilyn Monroe being reused"
"Australian Playboy Australian Playboy was an Australian imprint of ""Playboy"" magazine. In 1979 Kerry Packer's ACP Magazines secured the Australian rights to ""Playboy"" magazine. ""Australian Playboy"" featured similar content to the lead US edition, and included interviews, feature articles and entertainment reviews. The magazine would rely heavily on the US edition for pictorials, and thus reprinted many pictorials featuring popular US Playmates and celebrities including Pamela Anderson, Erika Eleniak and Anna Nicole Smith. An Australian Playmate of the Year would be crowned annually. The first edition issued February 1979, featured Rosemary Paul on the cover and Karen Pini as the"
"in India for various businesses. PB Lifestyle representatives have also stated that the company will adapt the Playboy brand to suit India's decency standards and will not allow content/material that is deemed 'lascivious or appealing to prurient interests'. The Publishing segment publishes Playboy magazine, a general-interest magazine targeted to men; special editions, books, and calendars; and the licensing of international editions of Playboy magazine. Playboy magazine is the largest monthly men's magazine in the United States and in the world, based on the combined circulation of the U.S. and international editions. Playboy formerly published Oui Magazine and Hefner also published"
"despite her objections. Another term that became popular with ""Playboy"" readers was the ""Playboy Playmate"". These new-style magazines featured nude or semi-nude women, sometimes simulating masturbation, although their genitals or pubic hair were not actually displayed. In 1963, ""Lui"" started in France to compete against ""Playboy"", while Bob Guccione did the same in the United Kingdom in 1965 with ""Penthouse"". ""Penthouse's"" style was different to other magazines; with women looking indirectly at the camera, as if they were going about their private idylls. This change of emphasis influenced erotic depictions of women. ""Penthouse"" was also the first magazine to publish"
"forbidden in U.S. pornographic magazines. ""Penthouse"" originated in 1965 in Britain and was initially distributed in Europe. In September 1969 it was launched in the U.S., bringing new competition to ""Playboy"". Due to more liberal European attitudes to nudity, ""Penthouse"" was already displaying pubic hair at the time of its U.S. launch. According to the magazine's owner Bob Guccione, ""We began to show pubic hair, which was a big breakthrough."" In order to retain its market share, ""Playboy"" followed suit, risking obscenity charges, and launching the ""Pubic Wars"". ""Playboy"" started showing wisps of pubic hair about nine months after ""Penthouse"""
"magazine's circulation; ""Playboy"" had begun publishing from publisher–editor Hugh Hefner's kitchen the year before. In 1964, the magazine repeated the pictorial. Photos from that pictorial was reprinted in a number of ""Playboy"" issues, including: December 1965 (""The Playboy Portfolio of Sex Stars""), January 1979 (""25 Beautiful Years""), January 1984 (""30 Memorable Years""), January 1989 (""Women Of The Fifties""), January 1994 (""Remember Jayne""), November 1996 (""Playboy Gallery""), August 1999 (""Playboy's Sex Stars of the Century""; Special edition), and January 2000 (""Centerfolds Of The Century""). In the Lee Siegel novel ""Who Wrote the Book of Love?"", the character Lucky Lee turns the"
"pictures that included pubic hair and full frontal nudity, both of which were considered beyond the bounds of the erotic and in the realm of pornography at the time. In 1965, ""Mayfair"" was launched in the UK in competition to ""Playboy"" and ""Penthouse"". In September 1969 ""Penthouse"" was launched in the U.S., bringing new competition to ""Playboy"". In order to retain its market share ""Playboy"" followed ""Penthouse"" in the display of pubic hair, risking obscenity charges, and launching the ""Pubic Wars"". As competition between the two magazines escalated, their photos became increasingly more explicit. In the late 1960s, some magazines"
"understand the meaning of democracy and a pluralistic society."" Playboy Indonesia Playboy Indonesia is a franchise of ""Playboy magazine"" in Indonesia. The magazine was first published in April 2006. It is published by Velvet Silver Media and edited by Erwin Arnada. This edition of the magazine is notable in that it features no nudity and that it is the first ""Playboy"" to be published in a Muslim-majority country since a Turkish edition that was discontinued in the mid-1990s. Despite tailoring the magazine to conservative local sensibilities, with fully clad models and articles such as an interview with dissident author Pramoedya"
"Playboy Club The Playboy Club was initially a chain of nightclubs and resorts owned and operated by Playboy Enterprises. The first club opened at 116 E. Walton Street in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States, on February 29, 1960. Each club generally featured a Living Room, a Playmate Bar, a Dining Room, and a Club Room. Members and their guests were served food and drinks by Playboy Bunnies, some of whom were featured in ""Playboy"" magazine. The clubs offered name entertainers and comedians in the Club Rooms, and local musicians and the occasional close-up magician in the Living Rooms. Starting with"
"Playboy's Penthouse Playboy's Penthouse is an American variety/talk television show hosted by ""Playboy"" founder and then-editor/publisher Hugh Hefner. It was first broadcast on October 24, 1959 and ran in syndication for two seasons. The show was designed as a way to spread ""Playboy"" magazine's influence beyond the printed page and to help non-readers get to know Hefner. The show, initially recorded at ABC's Chicago station WBKB, was set up as if it were a party at Hefner's own apartment, with many Playboy Playmates and bunnies in attendance. Celebrity guests would engage in conversation with Hefner and then perform, as well."
"by Twentieth Century Fox. The six were manufactured as signed limited edition artworks and displayed in galleries around the United Kingdom. This art collection from Claridge launched at the Playboy Club in Mayfair on Thursday 14 January 2016. It follows Playboy’s diamond anniversary in 2013 and is a collection of six vintage magazine covers spanning three decades of the iconic magazine. Claridge was, again, given unprecedented access to the archives, finally selecting six images from around seven hundred covers, dating from 1967 to 1982, including Playboy Bunnies, Karen Christy and Kaya Christian. All of the images are painted in Claridge's"
"and mother. However, the publisher of an unrelated men's adventure magazine, ""Stag,"" contacted Hefner and informed him it would file suit to protect their trademark if he were to launch his magazine with that name. Hefner, his wife Millie, and Sellers met to seek a new name, considering ""Top Hat"", ""Gentleman"", ""Sir'"", ""Satyr"", ""Pan"" and ""Bachelor"" before Sellers suggested ""Playboy"". The first issue, in December 1953, was undated, as Hefner was unsure there would be a second. He produced it in his Hyde Park kitchen. The first centerfold was Marilyn Monroe, although the picture used originally was taken for a"
"deemed ""lascivious or appealing to prurient interests"". Adult magazines such as ""Playboy"" are banned in India. Designer Mohini Tadikonda has altered the original Playboy Bunnies uniform to satisfy India's obscenity laws. Playboy Club The Playboy Club was initially a chain of nightclubs and resorts owned and operated by Playboy Enterprises. The first club opened at 116 E. Walton Street in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States, on February 29, 1960. Each club generally featured a Living Room, a Playmate Bar, a Dining Room, and a Club Room. Members and their guests were served food and drinks by Playboy Bunnies, some of"
"its own sales and marketing staff and launched the channel on several major multiple system operators. At the time of its launch, programming featured on the channel consisted of R-rated films. It was broadcast for only ten hours each day, from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. ET, during its first eleven years of existence. The channel re-launched as Playboy TV and adopted its current name on November 1, 1989. The network expanded its programming with the adoption of a 24-hour schedule in 1994. Playboy TV was originally developed as a video version of Playboy Magazine. Programming featured music reviews, celebrity"
"Sheriff's deputy"", to pose nude and has been offering $10,000 to any one who can get frontal nudes of Anderson Cooper. Playgirl Playgirl is an American magazine that features general interest articles, lifestyle and celebrity news, in addition to semi-nude or fully nude men. In the 1970s and 1980s, the magazine printed monthly and was marketed mainly to women, although it had a significant gay male readership in a period in which gay male erotic magazines were few. The magazine was founded in 1973 by Douglas Lambert during the height of the feminist movement as a response to erotic men's"