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Playboy is one of the most iconic American publications of all time, boasting a peak circulation of 5.6 million copies in 1976. But the creation of founder và longtime editor-in-chief, Hugh Hefner, was much more than just titillating nudie pics. Playboy has been a trailblazer of American counterculture. Here are some of the lesser-known facts surrounding Hefner"s pet project — good, bad, and ugly. This is the untold truth of Playboy


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In December 1953, Hefner reportedly "mortgaged" the furniture from "what would be his first wedding," according to lớn The Chicago Tribune, for a $600 loan. He took that và some other money borrowed from those cđại bại to lớn hlặng & used it to lớn publish the first edition of Playboy, according lớn People.

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In an interview with Time (via Australia"s ABC News), Hefner spoke of the first issue in relation to lớn the state of America"s sexual politics at the time. "When I first published Playboy magazine & certainly when I grew up & when I was in college, having a baby out of wedlock was a scandal. A scandal that drove some people to lớn suicide. Abortion was illegal, oral sex was a major felony. Even oral sex inside of a marriage was illegal, and very few people know that. Playboy played a major part in changing all those laws," Hefner said. Who would"ve guessed one of Hefner"s proudest achievements would have sầu been the de-stigmatization of married oral sex? Oh right, everyone. 


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Considering part of Playboy"s mission statement declared the magazine"s intended readership was men who "enjoy mixing up cocktails & an hors d"oeuvre or two, putting a little mood music on the phonograph và inviting in a female acquaintance for a quiet discussion on Picasso, Nietzsđậy, jazz, sex," it"s kind of remarkable that Hefner"s original title was Stag Party. That hardly evokes an air of cosmopolitung elegance.


Luckily for Hefner, his longtime art director, Art Paul was with hyên from the very beginning. "Hef was very insistent that the magazine be called Stag Party — I told hyên ổn it was madness," Paul told IIT Magazine. A hunting magazine named Stag didn"t lượt thích the idea, either. After brainstorming new "titles & animals that would represent a frisky slice of life," another founding associate, Eldon Sellers, pitched the title, Playboy. The iconic bunny hình ảnh that would eventually come khổng lồ represent a merchandising juggernaut also came at this time.


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Art Paul also told IIT Magazine that the bunny hình ảnh took hyên ổn "about one hour khổng lồ sketch" and that they were only going lớn use it "as a characteristic endpoint to lớn articles, but those plans changed." That understatement is echoed by every T-shirt, trinket, và sunburn tattoo emblazoned with the now ubiquitous rabbit head. As for why they chose that particular animal? "The word "playboy" itself is not a serious one. The rabbit is not serious; it was basically a signal that we could make fun of ourselves," Paul said.


Hefner described his own admittedly quirkier reasons for the mascot choice in a 1976 interview excerpted by the book, Sex in Language. "The rabbit, the bunny, in America has a sexual meaning; và I chose it because it"s a fresh animal, shy, vivacious, jumping — sexy. First it smells you then it escapes, then it comes baông xã, and you feel like caressing it, playing with it. A girl resembles a bunny. Joyful, joking. ... The Playboy girl has no lace, no underwear, she is naked, well-washed with soap và water, and she is happy," Hefner said. Yep, that"s extremely weird. All of it. Moving on.


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According to lớn The New Yorker, Hefner found himself in hot water early in his publishing career in 1958 when the magazine "published a centerfold of a 16-year-old girl." Hefner faced charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, but the case was dismissed after he produced "written permission from her mother," which at the time was apparently a good enough legal defense for taking semi-nude photos of a high-schooler.


The inherent grossness of the teenager"s mother notwithstanding, Hefner did allegedly adjust the magazine"s age policy to "never again publish a photograph of an unclothed woman under 18." After that, he often picked girls who only looked like they were minors, The New Yorker reported. Whew.


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In 2015, Playboy decided lớn remove sầu nudity from the magazine, citing widely available and không tính tiền internet porn as a key factor. "That battle has been fought và won," Playboy chief executive Scott Flanders told The New York Times, adding, "You"re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for không tính phí. And so it"s just passe at this juncture." The new, nipple-không tính tiền editions of the mag lasted about a year before they reversed the decision.


Having also undergone a shift in management — Hefner"s son Cooper stepped inlớn the role of chief creative officer — the br& shifted baông xã to lớn its roots with a February 2017 tweet from Cooper that stated, "I"ll be the first lớn admit that the way in which the magazine portrayed nudity was dated, but removing it entirely was a mistake. Nudity was never the problem because nudity isn"t a problem. Today we"re taking our identity back và reclaiming who we are."

That all sounds great, except the not-nude move was actually working. According lớn sales figures reported by the Alliance for Audited Media (via New York Post), single-copy sales increased "to 47,203 a month." A Playboy spokesman even reported an uptichồng of 100,000 new subscribers as of September năm 2016. So why change back?


Speaking with LA Weekly in July năm nhâm thìn, Cooper said, "People who are young don"t view nudity as a problem. I mean, Vogue today has nudity. The problem was how Playboy presented the nudity." Got it, so Playboy is now chasing the elusive "youth audience" with their naked pictorials. Could that mean a tastefully unclad Pokémon hunt could be in the works?


Though naked Playmates are usually the first thing anyone thinks about in association with Playboy, the magazine và Hefner have sầu been recognized as defenders of không tính phí speech. In 2010, Hefner was awarded the First Amendment Award by Pen Center USA, which describes the honor as being "given lớn a candidate who has done work in the domestic United States to lớn protect the First Amendment." The distinction puts Hefner aao ước other prestigious recipients like outspoken political critic Bill Maher và investigative sầu journalists Glenn Greenwald và Laura Poitras, who broke the Edward Snowden/NSA story.

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Through the Hugh Hefner Foundation, Hefner"s daughter, Christie, who served as a longtime head of Playboy Enterprises, mix up the brand"s own way lớn recognize không lấy phí speech pioneers by establishing their own First Amendment awards. According lớn Business Insider, since 1979, the foundation has awarded multiple recipients per year "whose actions tư vấn and often fight lớn preserve sầu the values of the First Amendment."


The old joke about Playboy, of course, is "I buy it for the articles," & while the centerfolds have clearly supplied the drawing power for "readers," the magazine developed inkhổng lồ something of a literary powerhouse throughout the "60s & "70s. There are almost too many heavy-hitting authors to lớn mention who have contributed to Playboy, but according khổng lồ the BBC, the danh mục includes John Steinbeông xã, Jaông xã Kerouac, Arthur C. Clarke, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakangươi, và many more.


In fact, Ray Bradbury"s classic, Fahrenheit 451 — remember that from your 7th grade summer reading list? — was reportedly never exposed to a mass audience until Hefner "paid $400 for the rights to serialize it the following year." He did the same thing with a little novel called On Her Majesty"s Secret Service, you know, just one of Ian Fleming"s James Bond novels that was later adapted inlớn a blockbuster film.

For these — & many more — contributions to lớn the literary world, Hefner was also given the Award of Honor from Pen Center USA. Jamie Wolf, vice president of the organization, told the Đài truyền hình BBC, " published Saul Bellow, he published Gabriel Garcia Marquez, he published John Updike, he published an extraordinary range of writers, serious literary writers who you were not otherwise getting when you went inlớn the grocery store. And he was paying them substantial wages. And some of them were blacklisted writers who other people wouldn"t publish." So, yes, it would seem someone was reading the articles.


According lớn The New York Times, a lot of the decision to lớn remove nudity from the magazine reportedly came from Playboy"s dependence on the Chinese market"s apparently voracious appetite for their merchandise, which at the time of their reporting amounted to "40 percent of that business." Combined with the fact that at the time, "the United States edition was losing about $3 million a year" and could only be "considered profitable if money from licensed editions around the world is taken inkhổng lồ tài khoản," the success of the brand"s merchandise was mission critical. It"s especially interesting, because the actual magazine is banned from the notoriously conservative mainland China — although available in Hong Kong — và yet, they can"t seem to get enough of Playboy-branded paraphernalia.


Quartz backed the New York Times" findings with even more eye-opening figures that point to lớn just how reliant on the Chinese market the entire Playboy enterprise truly is. From 2009 to lớn 2013, the company"s annual licensing revenues shot up a whopping $28 million và represented approximately half of the company"s overall revenues at the time. That means that if Chinese consumers decide khổng lồ be nonplussed with the reintroduction of naughty bits in the mag, they could collapse the whole company with their purchasing power. Um, has anyone told Cooper?


Since the second issue of the magazine, when Art Paul"s now-infamous bunny logo was debuted, Playboy has ensured that the iconic biệu tượng công ty has appeared in some shape or form. It"s said that hiding the logo started as a joke, but it"s now something the publication has stuông xã with for decades. Don"t believe us? Wait until you leave sầu work, or at least fire up incognikhổng lồ mode, and bởi vì a basic Google tìm kiếm for "Playboy cover." While you"re at it, see if you can spot the one we picked up there. (Hint: Eyes up top, you scamp.)


Considering Hefner"s aforementioned "Picasso, Nietzsbít, jazz" hipster-before-hipsters-were-a-thing aesthetic, it"s no surprise that over the years he spent almost less time focusing on the centerfolds, and more time focusing on the architectural implications of the chairs they bent over. At least, that"s according khổng lồ historian Beatriz Colomimãng cầu, who headed a Princeton study examining the Playboy founder"s obsession with thiết kế.


Speaking with Architecture Magazine, Colomimãng cầu said that from the very beginning, & because of the magazine"s Chicago roots, it represented "avant-garde architects" like Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies Van Der Rohe, and "the whole generation of the 1950s: Nelson, Eames, Saarinen, all of them." Colomina even went as far as saying, "Playboy did more for modern architecture and kiến thiết than any architectural journal or even the Museum of Modern Art."

But don"t misunderstvà, Hefner"s motivations always led baông xã khổng lồ his primary focus. "They really felt that this was an important tool — actually crucial — for seduction," Colomimãng cầu said, adding, "The modern apartment is a necessity for the bachelor, who has lớn surround himself with all these gadgets & all this modern furniture, và eventually even the architecture, the Playboy Pad. These are the settings in which seduction ." Romance through feng shui. Genius.


Through the years, Playboy was a flashpoint for many cultural happenings, including không tính tiền speech advocacy, literary enlightenment, & cutting-edge design appreciation. Civil rights can also easily be added lớn that danh sách.


In an interview with CBS Los Angeles, Hefner said, "I felt from a very early age that there were things in society that were wrong, & that I might play some small part in changing them." He then went on lớn list exactly how he tried to bởi vì that, including the desegregation efforts at his Playboy Clubs that even involved hlặng buying baông xã franchises from owners who refused minority members và performers at the front door. He also said that he sought out relationships with Rev. Jesse Jackson và Martin Luther King Jr. — the magazine just so happened to print the "last published piece written" by King before his death — và was instrumental in "the funding of PUSH & the Rainbow Coalition." But wait, there"s more.


Hefner also gave sầu a platform khổng lồ Miles Davis in the first-ever Playboy interview during which the jazz legkết thúc "didn"t talk so much about music, he talked about wishes và echất lượng." According khổng lồ People, Hefner also strongly advocated for gay rights, women"s reproductive rights, and religious freedom. In short, this was a man who was about living không tính tiền, & he used every platkhung available to lớn hyên to lớn push that agenda. 

It probably doesn"t outweigh the fact that he exploited an underage girl và published plenty of jailbait, but nothing is blaông xã and White.