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The Guy At The Bar Who Says He Has Connections At Playboy Is Most Likely Absolutely Full Of Shit .........

It's incredible how gullible wannabe models are, they all swear that they are going to be in Playboy, and if you challenge them on it they go mental.

Here is an excellent article which lays out the realities of a girl getting shot for Playboy - there are a grand total of 11 photographers on this planet who actually shoot for Playboy, all the special editions, Playboy.com and the mothership - the magazine.

Who really shoots for Playboy?  Who does, who doesn't, and how do you go about contacting those who count?

Here is the truth of the matter. As of this moment, August 2006, there are only eleven (11) people in the world who can approach a model and truthfully say "I shoot models for Playboy."

The truth - the whole truth - from inside Playboy.  Arny Freytag (LA) and Stephen Wayda (LA) are contract photographers who shoot every month and work exclusively for Playboy. George Georgiou (Chicago) is a full-time staff photographer for Playboy. The remaining eight photographers are regular contributors who shoot frequently, but not exclusively, for Playboy: Jarmo Pohjaniemi (Miami), David Rams (Atlanta), Ric Moore (Dallas), Mizuno (LA), Gen Nishino (NY), Byron Newman (London), Waldy Martens (Vancouver) and Paul Buceta (Toronto). Over time, this list can change, and models can call the Chicago office of Playboy to verify a photographer not on this list. But as of now, there are eleven.

And there are eight people who decide which models are chosen. Hugh Hefner still chooses each monthly Playmate for the magazine and remains the ultimate decision maker. In Chicago, director of photography Gary Cole, senior photo editor Kevin Kuster, managing photo editor Jim Larson, online photo editor Chad Doering , and Special Editions publisher Jeff Cohen are responsible for the images. In Los Angeles, west coast editor Marilyn Grabowski and senior editor Stephanie Morris decide.

There you have it. The source? Kevin Kuster. Over the past two weeks, I've spent several hours talking with Kevin, separating the truth from the mythology about how models get into Playboy. Bottom line: the above mentioned people are it. Playboy does not employ scouts, or agents, or recruiters. Others can submit, others can recommend, but these are the people that decide.

Inside Playboy.

Playboy has several outlets where model's photos can appear and deciding who goes where is the initial task..

First, there is Playboy magazine. Here, a girl may appear as a Playmate of the Month or in an editorial specific feature, such as "College Girls" or "Housewives," where the model fits the criteria for that category.

Then there are the periodic Special Editions magazines that are published under broad categories: Lingerie, Vixens, Wet and Wild, etc. Twenty-five Special Editions appear each year.

Finally, there is the website, www.playboy.com. Here, all the models appear in editorial specific categories. One model is featured each week, and from these, a Cybergirl of the Month is chosen, and from these, a Cybergirl of the Year.

The process: once properly submitted photos have reached Chicago or LA, the first cut is to decide whether or not the girl has Playmate potential. If so, she is flown in for a test shoot. Roughly 50 to 75 such shoots are done each year. If she doesn't have the Playmate look, then they see if she fits one of the magazine's editorial categories for an upcoming shoot. If not, she is considered for the Special Editions or the playboy.com website. Jeff Cohen, the publisher of the Special Editions, selects the girls who appear in those magazines.

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The payment for models varies with the venue. Rates start at industry standard levels but can rise quickly. Although rates can change, as of now, girls who appear in Playboy magazine features, such as the "Girls of the Big Ten" typically get $500 per day for an appearance, while the twelve girls chosen as Playmates each year get $25,000 and the Playmate of the Year takes home a tidy $100,000. Girls who appear in one of the Special Editions are also paid $500 per day and on the website, the Cybergirl of the Week receives $1000, Cybergirl of the Month $1,500, and Cybergirl of the Year $10,000.

Who Can Appear?

The key criteria for appearing in Playboy is that you must be at least eighteen and be willing to appear nude. Although many images in Playboy publications are partial, implied, or assumed nudity, every woman who applies must be willing to pose nude.

Compared to other magazines, Playboy's policies on appearing in competitor's publications are very liberal. Whether a girl has appeared in a mainstream men's magazine, such as the popular "laddy" magazines (e.g. Maxim, FHM, etc.) simply isn't an issue. And while Playboy would prefer that a girl's first nude appearance be with them, it isn't a requirement. However, although it is not disqualifying, it is a substantial negative to have appeared in one of the harder nude-only magazines, or on a hard-core website. There are exceptions, such as when Playboy did a feature on "Girls of the Internet," but it can be a negative.

Girls are not limited by a previous Playboy appearance. Any girl who appears in any Playboy venue remains eligible to become a Playmate. In fact, just by virtue of the exposure, one Playboy appearance gives a model a modest advantage toward another Playboy assignment.

Nor does Playboy demand exclusivity for girls after an appearance. Only Playmates have an exclusivity requirement: they cannot appear nude in any non-Playboy publication for one year after the Playboy appearance. All other girls are free to appear where they wish. Should they desire to appear in another Playboy publication, however, they would be wise to avoid those hard core venues.

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Perhaps the most persistent myth about Playboy is that models must have "connections" to get into the magazine. In truth, Playboy needs a lot of beautiful girls to apply. There may be only twelve Playmates per year, but between the other Playboy magazine features, the twenty-five Special Editions, and the insatiable Internet, Playboy is continually looking for models.

Still, the "connections" myth persists because, as Kevin Kuster puts it, "Many people want to attach themselves to Playboy. They want credit for getting a girl in Playboy. No one can do that."

"To show you the strength of this myth," Kuster says, "I was speaking at an event where I was clearly identified as a photo editor for Playboy. I spotted a beautiful girl in the audience and, later that day, I offered to fly her to Chicago for a test shoot. She turned me down, saying she knew someone who had a friend who had already promised to get her in Playboy. I couldn't believe it. I just walked away."

Myth Two: My Photos Will Get You In Playboy.

As humbling as it may be to glamour photographers, they are not an important factor in Playboy submissions. Some photographers will claim "I shot so and so and she then appeared in Playboy" as if there were a connection between the two. "But there is not one photographer out there that has a style unique enough to get models consistently approved for Playboy" according to Kuster. "No one needs a stylized, amazing photographer to get you into the magazine. If you are a beautiful woman, snapshots will do the trick. Eight quick snapshots changed Jenny McCarthy's life."

In fact, submitting beautiful, carefully prepared photos is a waste of time. Playboy editors assume that such images have been cleaned-up, liquified, or otherwise enhanced. Playboy editors want to see the girl, not the wizardry of a photographer. So submissions to Playboy should always be recent, unretouched photos.

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.

The magazine is published monthly and features photographs of nude women, along with various articles on fashion, sports, and consumer goods, and often short fiction by top literary writers as well. The magazine has been known to express liberal opinions on most major political issues.

Playboy's use of "tasteful" nude photos is often classified as “soft core” adult reading material. More “hard core” pornographic magazines started to appear in the 1970s in response to the success of Playboy's more explicit rival, Penthouse.

Brief History of Playboy.

In the first issue of Playboy, the first centerfold was Marilyn Monroe, although the picture used had originally been taken for a calendar rather than Playboy. Hefner purchased the rights to the photos of Monroe along with others.

The first issue, published in December, 1953, did not carry a date, as Hefner was unsure whether there would be a second issue. That first issue was an immediate sensation and sold out within a matter of weeks. Known circulation was 53,991 (Source: Playboy Collector's Association Playboy Magazine Price Guide). The cover price was 50¢. Copies of the first issue in Mint to Near Mint condition fetched over $5000 in 2002.

The famous Playboy logo, depicting the stylized profile of a rabbit wearing a tuxedo bow tie, was designed by art designer Art Paul for the magazine's second issue and has appeared on every issue since; a running joke in the magazine involves hiding the logo somewhere in the cover art or photograph. Hefner said that he chose the rabbit as a mascot for its “humorous sexual connotation”, and because the image was “frisky and playful”.

Since reaching its peak in the 1970s, Playboy has seen a slow decline in circulation and success, in part due to a series of bad investments in men's clubs and casinos, and partly from increased competition in the field it founded - first from Penthouse in the '70s and more recently from the related area of more irreverent and socially acceptable “lad's mags” such as Maxim and FHM.

In response Playboy has attempted to re-assert its hold on the 18–35 male demographic it once controlled through slight changes to its content and focussing on issues and personalities more appropriate to its audience—such as hip-hop artists being featured in the Playboy Interview.

Christie Hefner, daughter of Hugh Hefner, became CEO of Playboy in 1988 and is now also Chairman of the Board.

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The “Playboy Interview”, a monthly interview of someone prominent, has become famous for its confrontational style and in-depth process — a typical interview would range from 7 to 10 hours long. The interviewers employed have included Alex Haley and Alvin Toffler.

The "Playboy Interview" started with Miles Davis in September of 1962 (Volume 9 Number 9). Over the years they have conducted interviews with Jimmy Carter, John Lennon, Fidel Castro, Ayn Rand, Malcolm X, Kurt Vonnegut, Bertrand Russell, Salvador Dali, Martin Luther King Jr., Jean-Paul Sartre, George Wallace, Cassius Clay (Muhammed Ali), Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Orson Welles, Ralph Nader, Arthur C. Clarke, Yasir Arafat, Stephen Hawking, Shintaro Ishihara, and Carl Sagan.

Bans On The Sale Of Playboy

In most parts of Asia (including China, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and Brunei), Playboy is banned. In 2003, the Censorship Review Committee in Singapore concluded that the ban should be continued because the Singaporean community is not ready for Playboy's liberal use of sexually explicit photographs. In the 1980s, a well-publicized ban occurred when the American convenience store chain 7-Eleven decided to remove the magazine from its stores.

Playboy In The Courts

On the 14th of January 2004 the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Playboy Enterprises Inc.'s (PEI) trademark terms "playboy" and "playmate" should be protected even in Internet searches that prompt pop-up advertisements. The suit originally started on April 15th 1999, Playboy sued Excite Inc. and Netscape for trademark infringement.

In the original ruling the Honorable Alicemarie Stotler, of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, stated: "Defendants use of the words 'playboy' and 'playmate' in their search engine does not equate to commercial exploitation of plaintiff's ("PEI") trademarks."

Playboy's Record

The November 1972 Playboy issue - "Lenna".  The best-selling Playboy edition was the November 1972 edition, which sold 7,161,561 copies. Artist Jack Niland designed the cover to embody the principles of Dharma Art as taught by meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Perhaps coincidentally, a cropped image of the issue's centerfold (which featured Lena Soderberg) became an industry-standard for testing image processing algorithms. It is known simply as the "Lenna" image in that field.

Playboy And It's Controversies

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.

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.

Playboy Firsts

First issue with Leroy Neiman's Femlin: August 1955
First issue with a Vargas girl: March 1957
First issue with Ian Fleming story: March 1960
First issue with Playboy Advisor column: September 1960
First issue with Playboy Interview: September 1962 (with Miles Davis)
First issue to show female pubic hair: August 1969 (dancer Paula Kelly)
First issue with a Playmate showing pubic hair: January 1971 (Liv Lindeland)
First issue with a Playmate without any pubic hair: September 2001 (Dalene Kurtis)
First issue with an Asian-American Playmate: August 1964 (China Lee)
First issue with an African-American Playmate: March 1965 (Jennifer Jackson)
First issue with twins in centerfold: October 1970 - (Mary and Madeleine Collinson)
First issue with a double sided Centerfold It had a back shot of the model on the reverse side. January 1974 (Nancy Cameron)
First issue with signed centerfold: October 1975
First issue with Playmate data sheet: July 1977.
First issue without staple in Playmate's navel: October 1985
First national magazine with Web site (Playboy.com): August 1994

MUSIC:
Belinda Carlisle (August 2001)
Debbie Gibson (March 2005)
LaToya Jackson (March 1989 & November 1991)
Lutricia McNeal (October 2003 German Edition)
Tiffany (April 2002)

SPORT:
Amy Acuff (September 2004)
Gabrielle Reece (January 2001)
Mia St. John (November 1999)
Tanja Szewczenko (April 1999 German Edition)
Kiana Tom (May 2002)
Torrie Wilson (May 2003 & March 2004)
Katarina Witt (December 1998)

TELEVISION:
Brooke Burke (May 2001 & November 2004)
Gena Lee Nolin (December 2001)
Peta Wilson (July 2004)

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Books Published About Playboy

General Compilations:
Hugh M. Hefner, editor. The Bedside Playboy. Chicago: Playboy Press, 1963.

Anniversary Collections:
Gretchen Edgren, editor. The Playboy Book: Forty Years. Santa Monica, California: General Publishing Group, 1994, ISBN 1881649032
Playboy: 50 Years, The Photographs. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003, ISBN 0811839788
Hugh M. Hefner, editor; Michelle Urry, cartoon editor. Playboy: 50 Years, The Cartoons. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004. ISBN 0811839761
Gretchen Edgren, editor. The Playboy Book: Fifty Years. Taschen, 1995. ISBN 3822839760

Interview Compilations:
G. Barry Golson, editor. The Playboy Interview. New York: Playboy Press, 1981. ISBN 0872236684 (hardcover), ISBN 0872236447 (softcover)
G. Barry Golson, editor. The Playboy Interview Volume II. New York: Wideview/Perigee, 1983. ISBN 039950768X (hardcover), ISBN 039950769 (softcover)
David Sheff, interviewer; G. Barry Golson, editor. The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York: Playboy Press, 1981, ISBN 0872237052; 2000 edition, ISBN 0312254644