I don’t see how this follows from the rest of your post.
I recall in old Playboys (and articles about the magazine) that they showed Hef on his trademark circular bed, sucking on his pipe, drinking cold Pepsis, and looking over slides for the upcoming issue. They implied pretty clearly that Hefner had final overall say in the photos chosen for the pictorials, especially the gatefolds. I suspect that a lot of that was said for public consumption, and that Hefner didn’t really hand-edit and personally select the girls for EVERY issue.
On the other hand, if I had a magazine like that under my personal editorial control, I would keep an eye on which pictures were passing through the editing line and make sure the magazine was keeping to my standards, so Hefner’s standards and preferences, I’d think, DID rule the roost. In particular, I recall the 25th aniversary Playmate (and it’s scary to me to think that we’re past the 500th anniversary one), Candy Loving. She had those breasts you’re describing above, and I didnn’t care for them. It was 1978, and well past the era of perky bullet breasts. I think you can be pretty sure that Hefner scrutinized THAT issue.
By all indications, Hef, like most other famous and long-lasting magazine editors, was a perfectionist control freak who tried to micromanage every aspect of the magazine.
I’ve read most of the biographies on him and they all say he picked every centerfold himself. At least in the beginning, he did all the pictorials as well. I don’t remember how long that lasted.
About the only area of the magazine he delegated to others was the fiction section, which Ray Russell was in charge of in the 50s. Fiction was the first section that had a women as editor as well, IIRC. Alice K. Turner was editor for years.
What’s *not * true is that Hef slept with *every * centerfold or that the number of stars in the P on the cover indicated how many times.
Could well be. I have nothing to verify or to deny this.
I’m just saying I don’t trust the output of a magazine’s PR department.
What’s your source on this?
Ah, you misunderstood. I meant whoever selected the pictures on that website. Hef did have final say in the pictures (this was a bit before Christie was old enough to help, I think.)
I don’t know about the later ones, but I’m familiar with Playboys from about 1965 - 1975.
That is because unchecking the Automatically parse links in text is too simple as is just putting one extra space in a web address. You see to be truly work safe you have to put at least three spaces in a web address.
:rolleyes:
Here cut and past this: http://www.goofball.com/photos/990210_breast_pups
We have shot several models with breasts like that. As others have said, it’s a matter of selection of models, and models like that are not popular in the mainstream world currently (but they are on my site, if only we could find more models like her!).
This is true in the “real” world", but the internet is the great equaliser. Niche porn sites are HUGELY successful, because you don’t have to have a bunch of gizmos trucked to stores in every city.
The reality depends on your definition of “hugely,” not to mention your definition of “successful.”
I would bet that the Playboy and Penthouse websites are much more hugely successful than those catering to niche porn. I’m sure your site takes in an enviable amount of money, but does it compare to those with “mainstream” big name porn sites? Your site doesn’t make Alexa list of the top 100 sites in Australia, but youporn does.
The smaller the niche, the less potential profit there is to be made. You can send your kids to nice colleges and buy a big house, but you won’t make the Forbes 400.
I haven’t seen anything on the Internet that changes that.