Sure, it features sexist “pictorials” of stunning nude ladies, including numerous a-listers, however the periodical that is monthly posts brief stories, articles, and cartoons by a few of the world’s leading writers and performers. Playboy runs interviews of well-known, accomplished individuals, too.

Now confronted with Internet nudes available free at the click of a mouse key as well as changed social values and mores, the late Hugh Hefner’s mag has fallen on crisis. Its licensing costs can be worth more than its initial content. Nonetheless, Playboy mag firsts can’t be replicated. Such as the book it self, they’re one of a sort.

First Problem

A former promotional copywriter for Esquire magazine, spent $7,600 of his and investors’ capital to launch Playboy magazine, not knowing whether a second issue would follow in December 1953, Hugh Hefner. At a cover price of 50 cents, the debut issue sold 50,000 copies.

A“lifestyle” magazine, he admitted that sex would be “one important ingredient” in its mix of contents although Hefner considered Playboy. Continue reading Although it’s been controversial since its debut, Playboy magazine is certainly an icon of American pop culture. →