Playboy (magazine)

Playboy is an adult entertainment magazine, founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc. {{NYSE|PLA}}, reaching into every form of media. Playboy is one of the world's best known brands. In addition to the flagship magazine in the United States, special country-specific versions of Playboy are published worldwide.

Controversy

There is some controversy over the airbrushing (or, in recent times, Photoshopping) that is done on the images featured in the magazine. While Playboy images have traditionally been retouched to various degrees, this practice has become quite pronounced in the late 1990s. Some readers say that this kind of photo-editing takes away from authenticity and makes photographs look unnatural.

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Controversy - Airbrush - Photoshopping

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One example was the case of Pamela Anderson and the "disappearing labia". In Pamela's original Playboy appearance in the issue of February, 1990, there was a rear-view photo with her legs slightly apart and her labia majora plainly visible. In reprints in later "Newstand Specials" as well as a poster-sized print, Pamela had been "defeminized", this area having been painted over, in the color of the object in front of which she was standing.

Related Topics:
Pamela Anderson - Labia - Labia majora

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