List of Playboy videos

Playboy Videos are videos released by Playboy Enterprises, Inc., the publishers of Playboy magazine. The first videos were titled “Playboy Video Magazine” and 12 volumes were produced during the years 1982–1987. They borrowed the format of the magazine itself and included interviews, essays, journalism, and pictorials of beautiful women.

Wet & Wild Series

1989 saw the release of the first video feature devoted exclusively to playmates and water, Wet and Wild. This proved to be such a popular hit that Playboy produced a further 9 videos which formed the Wet & Wild series.

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The first video featured playmates taking part in a variety of activities including sports such as surfing and sailing, being involved in more mundane tasks such as bathing, as well as acting out rather unusual fantasies as witnessed in the very first sequence of the series in which pirates Rebekka Armstrong and friends send their captives to their perils at the bottom of the sea. A number of exotic places including Tahiti and Cancún were chosen to film the playmates in, and as is common in many Playboy videos the locations were given as much attention as the playmates themselves. Although the majority of sequences in the early videos of the series maintained a sense of eroticism, depicting the female figure as works of art, there were certain sequences which could be described as being risqué. A direct comparison could be made, for example, between the Fantasy: Liquid Sensations, or Liquid Dreams sequences in which the female figure is treated as landscape for the photographer, and the Hot Wax sequence in which playmates Rebekka Armstrong and Gianna Amore use first their clothes and then their bodies to wash a car.

Related Topics:
Pirates - Rebekka Armstrong - Sea - Tahiti - Cancún - Eroticism - Female - Figure - Art - Gianna Amore

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Playboy continued to show erotic depictions of the female form and its interaction with water in Wet and Wild II; and although the choice of locations were less exotic than those in the first video, Playboy were more adventurous in the extent to which they used full frontal nudity. While in Wet and Wild III and Wet and Wild IV the use of highly choreographed dance routines in some scenes were more reminiscent of a music video. It was not until Wet and Wild IV that we saw a playmate (Tanya Beyer) taking part in a simulated sex scene—a striking departure for Playboy as in all videos up to this point playmates had only been involved in activities which were seemingly unrelated to sexual activity, but even here the scene was relatively tame in comparison to some scenes in mainstream Hollywood films such as Showgirls or Wild Things. In Wet and Wild V the playmates returned to exotic locations, including Baja.

Related Topics:
Music video - Tanya Beyer - Sexual activity - Hollywood - Showgirls - Wild Things - Baja

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Volumes VI to IX were based loosely on several different themes including the women's locker room (Wet and Wild VI), hot holidays (Wet and Wild VII), women's buttocks (Wet and Wild VIII), and finally the season of summer (Wet and Wild IX). By this time Playboy did not shun to show playmates engaged in more explicit sexual activity and this was never more so the case than in ' which could be argued as possibly the most erotic video produced by Playboy.

Related Topics:
Locker room - Buttocks - Summer

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Although a final video called Wet and Wild! Backstage Pass was released in 2002 it did not meet the high expectations which could be anticipated from previous releases as it was a low budget production, featured for the most part unknown models and did not have any of the fantasy elements that were present in previous videos.

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