On Tuesday, Playboy announced that starting in March, its magazine will no longer feature nude models. But for the publication that changed the way sexuality was viewed in America, it certainly is the end of an era. The magazine, founded by Hugh Hefner in , has seen its circulation drop from approximately 5. But this is impossible to fully confirm since Playboy never tracked the religion of its models.
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Nearly four decades ago, a young woman named Candy Collins took off most of her clothes, smiled for the camera and wound up on the cover of the February issue of Playboy magazine. A few weeks ago this same woman, whose name is now Candace Jordan, was in the process of taking off most of her clothes again when she stopped to say, exaggerating just a bit, "I have been eating nothing but raisins for the last few weeks to get ready for this. Jordan is part of an intriguing photo project that features former Playmates from the magazine's past, re-creating their original, long-ago cover photos. Among them, in addition to Jordan, are Monique St. Some people will, because a great many men have kept past issues of the magazine in boxes in their garages, attics or basements or bound on bookshelves.
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Dorothy Stratten was a teenager serving ice cream out of a Dairy Queen in Vancouver , Canada, when she caught the eye of Paul Snider, a local pimp with dreams of Hollywood fame. It was and, at the time, those who knew them said Snider saw an opportunity in Stratten and began grooming her. Eventually, he persuaded her to pose for a nude photo shoot, which could help launch her career in Los Angeles. Over the next two years, the feathered-hair blonde "girl next door" became a Playboy Playmate of the Year with a budding acting career. But before Stratten could reach the heights of her stardom, she was pulled under -- brutally murdered by Snider, the same man who had first discovered her.
Playboy Special Editions formerly known as flats , then Newsstand Specials [2] are a spin-off series of Playboy magazine containing glamour and softcore nude photographs. The initially infrequent and later semi-regular editions ran from until the publication of the final issues in 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 also appeared in them. Early issues, beginning in , featured approximately pages of old reprint and outtake photos of Playmates with no specially commissioned photos. Issues from the early s began to include a number of "one-shot" models purchased in bulk from glamour photographers. By the mids, Playboy had established a distinct identity for the line by mixing new shots of recent Playmates with new models, some of whom soon became as popular as the Playmates themselves.
