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While Hefner’s copy of that first issue is expected to generate considerable interest, it continues to provoke considerable controversy, as using Monroe’s photos was deemed exploitative.

Hefner Foundation, which supports civil liberties and First Amendment rights. Proceeds from the auction will be directed to the Hugh M.

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“No, because the name, the perception, is much bigger, no matter what’s in it.Also on tap at the auction: a custom-made Playboy Monopoly board game (which is estimated to sell for between $6000 and $8000) a leather Los Angeles Lakers jacket with the Playboy insignia (worth $3000 to $5000) an Underwood Standard portable typewriter Hefner used in college (valued at $300 to $500) his trademark smoking jacket (which should go for $3000 to $5000) and Hefner’s entire personal collection of Playboy, all bound in leather volumes, which experts value somewhere between $20,000 and $40,000. “Will I ever see Playboy at my Walmart?” he asked. But he said the magazine was still unlikely to be sold in mainstream retailers, and would this continue to struggle with sales, given its reputation. Husni predicted there would be an uplift in sales for the last nude issue and the first non-nude issue. A famous interview with John Lennon, published just before his death, saw him defend his relationship with Yoko Ono. In its heyday, Playboy featured interviews with Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and Jimmy Carter. “When was the last time you heard anyone talking about Playboy content, about an interview on Playboy?” he said. The problem with that, he said, is that “if the cake is not good, which Playboy has not been for some time”, then the magazine will continue to struggle. Husni, who is also known as “ Mr Magazine”, said Playboy had been claiming for years that people bought the magazine for its in-depth articles, interviews and reviews, “and that the pictures were just like the icing on the cake”. So your perception of what Playboy is is not going to change.” “I have my doubts,” said Dr Samir Husni, director of the University of Mississippi’s magazine innovation center. The New York Times reported that Playboy’s circulation had dropped from 5.6m in 1975 to about 800,000 currently. The question now is whether the non-nude version of the magazine can increase sales, or even maintain the same level. Playboy relaunched its website as non-nude in 2014 and claims to have tens of millions of readers each month.

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True to form, Anderson is also photographed in a series of revealing poses. The back-and-forth between the two, typical of Playboy’s interview style, only covers one page.

In the last nude issue, Anderson is interviewed by James Franco – who played Hefner in Lovelace, a 2013 film about the porn industry in the 1970s. Other celebrities to have posed include Ursula Andress, Kim Basinger and Drew Barrymore. The magazine was founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner, who remains its editor-in-chief. “Playboy has been a friend to nudity, and nudity has been a friend to Playboy, for decades.

“The question everyone will likely be asking is, ‘Why?’” a statement in October said, announcing the change.

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