24 Facts About Playboy magazine

1.

The Playboy magazine generally reflects a liberal editorial stance, although it often interviews conservative celebrities.

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2.

Playboy magazine formed HMH Publishing Corporation, and recruited his friend Eldon Sellers to find investors.

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3.

However, the publisher of an unrelated men's adventure Playboy magazine, Stag, contacted Hefner and informed him it would file suit to protect their trademark if he were to launch his Playboy magazine with that name.

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4.

Playboy magazine was an early proponent of cannabis reform and provided founding support to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws in 1970.

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5.

Playboy magazine's announced in December 2008 that she would be stepping down from leading the company, effective in January 2009, and said that the election of Barack Obama as the next President had inspired her to give more time to charitable work, and that the decision to step down was her own.

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6.

Playboy magazine launched limited-edition products designed by fashion houses such as Versace, Vivienne Westwood and Sean John.

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7.

In January 2011, the publisher of Playboy magazine agreed to an offer by Hefner to take the company private for $6.

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8.

In October 2015, Playboy announced the magazine would no longer feature full-frontal nudity beginning with the March 2016 issue.

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9.

Josh Horwitz of Quartz argued that the motivation for the decision to remove nudity from the magazine was to give Playboy Licensing a less inappropriate image in India and China, where the brand is a popular item on apparel and thus generates significant revenue.

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10.

In early 2018, and according to Jim Puzzanghera of the Los Angeles Times, Playboy was reportedly "considering killing the print magazine", as the publication "has lost as much as $7 million annually in recent years".

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11.

In 2019, Playboy magazine was relaunched as a quarterly publication without adverts.

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12.

In March 2020, Ben Kohn, CEO of Playboy Enterprises, announced that the Spring 2020 issue would be the last regularly scheduled printed issue and that the magazine would now publish its content online.

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13.

In 1971, Playboy magazine had a circulation rate base of seven million, which was its high point.

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14.

In 1972, Playboy was the ninth highest circulation magazine in the United States.

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15.

In 1970, Playboy became the first gentleman's magazine to be printed in braille.

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16.

Playboy magazine's is never sophisticated, a girl you cannot really have.

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17.

Playboy magazine's is a young, healthy, simple girl - the girl next door.

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18.

The Playboy magazine girl has no lace, no underwear, she is naked, well washed with soap and water, and she is happy.

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19.

Success of Playboy magazine has led PEI to market other versions of the magazine, the Special Editions, such as Playboy's College Girls and Playboy's Book of Lingerie, as well as the Playboy video collection.

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20.

In September 2005, Playboy began publishing a digital version of the magazine.

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21.

In 2010, Playboy magazine introduced The Smoking Jacket, a safe-for-work website designed to appeal to young men, while avoiding nude images or key words that would cause the site to be filtered or otherwise prohibited in the workplace.

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22.

In 1995, Playboy magazine was returned to shelves in the Republic of Ireland after a 36-year ban, despite staunch opposition from many women's groups.

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23.

Playboy magazine was not sold in the state of Queensland, Australia during 2004 and 2005, but returned as of 2006.

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24.

In March 2018, Playboy magazine announced that they would be deactivating their Facebook accounts, due to the "sexually repressive" nature of the social media platform and their mismanagement of user data resulting from the Cambridge Analytica problem.

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