Is there a list anywhere of celebrities that either
Had a photoshoot for Playboy that was considered a “Playboy Pictorial” but contained no nudity, I know Jane Seymour managed this.
or
Didn’t pose for Playboy, but Playboy still ran a nude pictorial with pictures they had obtained elsewhere. Marylin Monroe and Uma Therman would both fit.
I don’t have a list for you but Vanna White’s photos were non-nude lingerie shots obtained without her permission. So they might sort of qualify for both lists.
Well *Penthouse *famously made the practice mainstream with Miss America Vanessa Williams’ semi-lesbo B&W photos (ironically, the Pet of the Month for that issue was an underage Traci Lords, so the issue is considered kiddie porn in the US). They later did it again with some crappy pics of Madonna (with gross hairy pits) and it proved popular enough that *Playboy *gave in and followed suit with more of the crappy pictures of her.
I’ve long laughed at the irony: in the same issue where Uma Thurman appears, the Playboy Advisor advises a reader against listening in on conversations to get phone numbers, saying that stalking is creepy.
And the irony is?
Wasn’t Farrah Fawcett’s “I’m 50” pictorial layout all artsy photos that obscured most of her body or had her covered very strategically to not actually show anything you wouldn’t see at the beach?
I assume the pictures of Thurman were long-lens, unauthorized, paparazzi spy pics.
Don’t know if Playboy printed them but there was a famous set of spy pics of Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Pitt prancing around buck nekid’ at some European villa. Mostly famous for revealing Pitt’s enormous schvensticka*!* 
Asked and answered. Playboy was doing exactly what they advised against doing: stalking.
I always thought that was messed up. Hugh Hefner seems to be a pretty progressive dude when it comes to politics but how can he justify publishing nude photos of women without their permission? I remember at one point they had a section in the back that featured celebrities wardrobe malfunctions, nipple slips, etc.
Because of money. Playboy reached its peak in the ‘me generation’ of the 1970s. With Reagan elected social mores backslid a little in the early 80s. But even more importantly the VCR let hardcore porn go mainstream. All of a sudden Playboy was little more than quaint. Hefner also let his daughter take over around this time and she tried to re-invent *Playboy *as more of a ‘Cosmo for men’. It didn’t work. They continued to decline until, in the late 90s, broadband internet made all other porn (soft or hard) completely obsolete! I’m amazed *Playboy *is still in business (think *Penthouse *went under a while ago).
Speaking of *Penthouse *during that magazine’s death-throws they tried going hard core to attract readers. They even starting featuring, ahem, ‘water sports’ to remain edgy. Needless to say this didn’t work either…
My understanding without cite is that the magazine largely exists these days to keep its IP and logo relevant and, what money Playboy does make, is largely made from licensing.
I let my subscription lapse after the second time they skipped a month. It’s a pretty sure sign of doom when a periodical becomes aperiodical.
I have a subscription from one of those $5 offers from the discount magazine sites. I figured that for 50¢ a copy, I’d find something interesting about it. The interviews/“20 Questions” are usually worth reading.
It’s funny since, in this age of instant online porn, you can legitimately say you’re getting it “for the articles”. Arguably, that’s the ONLY reason to get it.
Jayne Kennedy (kind of famous in the early 80s) and Bernadette Peters did non-nude lingerie-type pictorials. In the very first issue, Eartha Kitt did the least-salacious “pictorial” ever to appear in the magazine (although I think they were still waiting for the term “pictorial” to mean anything specific at that point).