Playboy is targeting China-where its magazine is banned-as a profitable market for its merchandise, reportedly seeking to double its retail revenues in the country to $10 billion in the next decade. She is an actress, known for McMillan & Wife (1971), Get Smart (1965) and Mannix (1967). The company went public in 1971 before being bought and taken private again by Hefner and investment firm Rizvi Traverse Management for $210 million in 2011. edition is no longer profitable but serves as a flagship for the brand around the world. Playboy’s flagship magazine has seen its circulation drop to about 800,000 from a peak of about 5.6 million in 1975. Playboy's circulation has dropped from 5.6 million in the 1970s to around 800,000 at present, according to official figures reported by The Times. Redesign will begin with March 2016 issue. Its sex columnist will be a "sex-positive female," according to Jones, and Playboy will continue to include investigative journalism and interviews. We managed to snag an early copy and heres what you can expect in the March 2016 issue: THE FIRST COVER GIRL. icon Marilyn Monroe in the magazine's debut 1953 edition. Thumbing through the revamped Playboy magazine. The seller has not specified a postage method to United States. The Internet has claimed one of its highest profile victims yet: As of March 2016, Playboy magazine will no longer feature fully nude models. Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. It is not yet clear whether the magazine will dispense with its famous centrefold, first graced by U.S. PLAYBOY Magazine March 2016: Heyy ) Condition is Brand new. The redesigned magazine will still include a Playmate of the Month, but the pictures will not be fully nude. "You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free.
Playboy Chief Executive Scott Flanders told The Times that the instant availability of pornographic material on the Internet had prompted the decision. Born Helen Luella Koford on January 7, 1929, the Los Angeles, California, native worked as a model before she made her film debut at age 11 in 20th Century-Fox's Maryland (1940). Now, it seems set to follow the same path with its magazine after Playboy's chief content editor, Cory Jones, pitched the idea to the company's famous founder Hugh Hefner and the pair agreed to a nude-free redesign. Celebrities who posed nude for Playboy magazine. The men's title already dropped nudity from its website in August 2014, a decision that company executives said increased unique monthly users fourfold from 4 million to 16 million per month and lowered the average reader's age from 47 to just over 30. USA Today and wire services contributed to this article.Renowned adult magazine Playboy is set to drop fully nude models from its print edition as of March 2016, The New York Times reported. Information on services was not available Wednesday night. Hefner is survived by his wife, Crystal, and four grown children: Christie, who served as CEO of Playboy Enterprises for more than 20 years, David, Marston and Cooper. Playboy published its first non-nude issue in March 2016 and before that had launched a safe-for-work Playboy Now app.Ĭooper Hefner announced in February that after one buttoned-up year, Playboy was bringing nude photographs back to its magazine. He was a two-time Guinness Book of World Records holder, for being the longest-running editor of a magazine and for having the largest scrapbook collection, which currently consists of more than 2,900 volumes, according to a release.Īccording to a May 2011 article in Vanity Fair, when Hugh Hefner opened the first Playboy Club, in 1960, "he was selling men the chance to walk into the pages of his magazine: the swinging-bachelor-pad décor, the carefully garnished cocktails, and, above all, the cantilevered, cottontailed Bunnies." This week, the magazine announced that beginning March 2016, it will no longer.
became a well-known location for celebrity parties and was the setting of the reality TV show "The Girls Next Door," which aired from 2005 to 2010. Just this week, the invoice from Playboy arrived for my new subscription. The Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills, Calif.