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My dad had sensed the significance of it at the time and he gave me the magazine because he figured I was old enough where I wouldn't be like, "Oh my god, there are boobies in the magazine!" But of course, I read the interview, and then was like, "Well, I do believe there are boobies in this magazine." So my interest was piqued. was sort of a turning point in his relationship with the media. But yeah, I do still read it.ĭanny Bowes: I started in the spring of 1992 when I was 13.My dad gave me a copy that had an interview with Michael Jordan. Maybe there'll be, I don't know, an in-depth interview with Quentin Tarantino or something interesting. I read Playboy hoping there's going to be something of interest in there. I don't read tons and tons of magazines like I used to, but I still read the articles in Playboy. Will you still read it, or is it just being archived for your collection? I'll keep going after the re-launch, sure. Yeah, I'm still collecting it, so I get it every month. Is your collection up to date? Are you a subscriber? The UK's oldest equestrian weekly magazine, Horse and Hound, you're not just going to suddenly call it Hound magazine. Without the nudity you could argue it's like French fries without ketchup. Now, maybe parameters need to be clear because I understand Playboy Brazil and Germany are keeping the nudity. Whether it's desperation or not, I don't think it's a great move because you expect nudity in Playboy.
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Malcolm X, Martin Luther King were in Playboy… James Bond was serialized in it! People say it as a cliché, but I would read Playboy for the articles.ĭo you think going away from full nudity is a good move for Playboy? John Lennon's last interview was in Playboy. The writing was always fantastic you had amazing interviews in them. I thought, Right, I've got to fill my collection of magazines, and that's what I did. They would have Playboys going from the 50s through the 80s. I was collecting the new ones, but then after going to crazy shops in London I discovered the dangerous pursuit of back issues.
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So you look at a Playboy and it had a naked woman on the cover, but that woman would always be a pop culture staple, like Bo Derek, Kim Basinger, Janet Jackson, whoever. I saw it in a newsagent and thought it was another interesting magazine that had pop culture, and my thing was always collecting pop culture. So when did you start collecting Playboy, formally? Let's say a was in heavy rotation and you needed to keep writing about Prince or Madonna or whatever-where better to get more information than a Rolling Stone interview? Magazines were full of rich information that was not easily available. I had to write things for the VJs, or video jockeys, to talk about, and the best thing you had before the internet was magazines. James Hyman: One of the initial reasons for collecting is that I was a scriptwriter for MTV in the late 80s, early 90s.
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Guinness World Record Holder for Largest Collection of Magazines The hope seems to be that by removing the whiff of baby boomer seediness from its pages, young people will read and subscribe to it. The Playboy website went SFW last August and as a result, executives told the Times, quadrupled its traffic. But the people in charge of the magazine are betting that millennials in general will approve of the move. Founder Hugh Hefner's 24-year-old son even publicly broke with the company because he's so appalled by its decision not to publish photos of vaginas anymore. Still, the first full-nudity-free issue of Playboy, which is coming out in March, marks a big shift in the brand. The strategy is pretty obvious: People who want to look at naked women have more than enough ways to do that on the internet as Gloria Steinem told Time: "It's as if the NRA said we're no longer selling handguns because now assault weapons are so available." Well, there are still naked ladies, as the New York Times has pointed out, but they're the sort of naked ladies who might live in GQ or Esquire, their most provocative bits hidden behind some equivalent of a fig leaf. Late last year, Playboy caused a fuss when the venerable nudie mag announced that it wouldn't have naked ladies in it anymore.
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