Naked Magazine's Worldwide Guide to Naked Places - 8th Edition: Volume 8

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The focus of the content was on a more general mix of articles as well as softcore porn and images of famous women. This format proved not to be as popular with their audience and their editorial pieces on motoring, popular culture and humorous anecdotes left the magazine foundering just a decade after it started. Now the name of a Spanish language fashion magazine, Chic was originally the title of one of Larry Flynt’s publications in the 70s through to the 90s. In 1935, the predecessor of the adult magazine, as we know it today, was launched with Men Only. Covering male issues from a male perspective the publication ran with a tagline of ‘We don’t want women readers. We won’t have women readers’. The title had plate prints of artistic nudes but was mainly text based. Undergoing many changes throughout the years, the title was relaunched in 1971 as a top shelf magazine. Attracting an artistic approach to its nudes, Lui now has a reputation for being more of a glamour/adult magazine.

The magazine’s selling point has always been its association with promoting new talent in the AV industry as well as its unfussy centrefolds. Nudes were the brand, so if one day you remove them, then you technically kill the brand image. Playboy with no nudes was an oxymoron. As the lines of public decency became more liberal, saucy publications called ‘Lad’s Mags’ were becoming more and more popular. Widely accepted as not being top shelf material, the front covers of many of these titles would have caused widespread uproar just a few decades ago.

Photographed without clothing, props or jewellery the centrefold is double-sided and the reverse shows the same model at a 45 degree angle. Club In common with all of Paul Raymond Publications, Men’s World is also available online where members can excess more explicit imagery. Penthouse Interestingly, the original editorial team were said to all be homosexual men who would purposefully choose uglier women to feature in the magazine. The content of their magazines was varied according to the title but were always hardcore and extremely explicit. They were published in English to gain maximum export revenue to international markets. Despite bowing to popular demands to increase the hardcore content by the 2000s, the magazine’s circulation dwindled and eventually closed in 2007. Perfect 10

A controversial company from the very start, CCC released its first publication of Color Climax two years before pornographic material was legalised in Denmark. GenesisMagazines like Loaded and FHM were all competing for shelf space but doing a better job at appealing to the masses who preferred to avoid the stigma of reaching to the top shelf for dirty magazines. Not only that but the growth of the internet was fast fulfilling the need for pornography a lot more discreetly. The early years of Swank magazine are a little fuzzy with publication ceasing for several years and the direction of the content being confused. Penthouse has spawned many international variations of its title including Penthouse Forum in the US. Other secondary titles include Girls of Penthouse which features more explicit content. A French magazine which was set up to rival Playboy in Europe, Lui sold the US franchising rights to Playboy in 1972 (see Oui, above).

Aktuell Rapport was originally produced monthly then changed to weekly in the 1980s before settling on its current bi-weekly format. Issues in the seventies were styled more on GQ magazine than a comparative skin publication. Since being sold to Magna Publishing in 1993 Swank has evolved to be a fully fledged citizen of the top shelf.The magazine is produced by the UK powerhouse of porn publishing, Paul Raymond Productions who also distribute Razzle, Mayfair and Men Only.