The biggest of the newer magazines, a venerable French publication called Lui, has sold as many as 350,000 in France.ĭespite their relatively small audience, the magazines are influencing the direction of the pornography industry, according to Theo Sapoutzis, chief executive of the industry magazine and trade organization Adult Video News. Penthouse, which sold nearly five million copies, sells about 100,000. Playboy, which at one time sold almost six million copies a month in the United States, now sells about a million, according to the Alliance for Audited Media. They include Adult and 25 from New York, Irène from Paris and Extra Extra out of Rotterdam. About a dozen newer sex-themed magazines, often with predominantly female editorial staffs, are blending nudity with art, fashion and philosophy. Still, while these older magazines have retrenched and moved online, a newer breed has taken their place in specialty magazine stores and independent booksellers. Last summer, Larry Flynt, the founder of Hustler, acknowledged that the print version of his magazine was not going to be around much longer. In the not too distant past, Playboy and Penthouse each sold five million or more copies a month, and were so much a part of the culture that in 1986 a federal judge ruled that denying blind people a Braille version of Playboy violated their First Amendment rights.īut traditional pornographic magazines have been hit hard, falling victim to boundless quantities of nudity online and rapidly declining print sales. The magazine will still feature women in provocative poses, but they will no longer bare all when the March issue is released, according to the magazine.Pornography used to mean Playboy or Penthouse or another of the hundreds of glossy magazines kept on high shelves and purchased furtively. So we say: Why stop now,' staff wrote in an online post in October. Our journalism, art, photos and fiction have challenged norms, defied expectations and set a new tone for decades. The company noted in October that it may be a 'risk' to go 'non-nude.” The first issue of Playboy was published in 1953, and featured Marilyn Monroe on the cover. 'I was painfully shy before, but then it clicked in my head that nobody cares what you look like naked except you,' she told the magazine. 'People are more concerned about themselves and their own flaws.' While Anderson may seem like a natural now, she said she was 'nervous and throwing up' the first time she posed for the magazine. #LastOne /teTeQsmL48- Playboy December 3, 2015

Playboy tweeted a photo of the cover and used the hashtag #LastOne on Thursday. 'I said, 'Hef just called, he wants me to do the last cover of Playboy,' and he goes, 'Mom you've got to do it,'' Anderson said.Īnderson recalls that Brandon said, 'We're older, we're not embarrassed anymore by you. When the company asked Anderson if she would pose for the issue, she said she was concerned that it might bother her sons, Entertainment Tonight reported. She's taking selfies down her shirt, like, you know there's no mystery over there anymore.' And the girl next door doesn't exist anymore. 'I was like, 'What? Are you serious?' But then I thought that's probably a good thing,'' Anderson told Entertainment Tonight. The cover is Anderson’s 14th Playboy cover and her 15th pictorial for the magazine, according to the magazine.Īnderson told Entertainment Tonight that she found out about the magazine’s plans to robe the playmates from one of her sons. 'To close out this era in the magazine’s history, it only made sense to put the most famous Playmate in Playboy history on the cover: Pamela Anderson,” staff wrote on Thursday.

According to the magazine, there was only one woman for the historic last nude issue. The last issue of the magazine featuring nude women will be on stands December 11. Playboy announced in October that the magazine will no longer publish images of fully nude women as part of an editorial redesign. Pamela Anderson will be on the cover of the last nude issue of Playboy magazine, ending a tradition of centerfolds baring all for the publication.

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