The March 2016 issue of Playboy marks the magazine’s first-ever issue that has zero nudity in it. Playboy CEO Scott Flanders’ October announcement that Playboy would no longer feature nudes was met with shock across the Internet, but, true to his word, here’s the centerfold from next month’s issue — Miss March, Dree Hemingway:
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Kim Kardashian says she’s working hard to shed some of her baby weight, but while she waits, she’s not above looking at old photos of herself from her pre-Saint days.
Case in point: This recent post on her app, in which she shared some “behind-the-scenes” photos from her December 2007 Playboy cover shoot. “They are so good,” she wrote. “Awww, I look like a baby LOL!” The kind of baby that gets thrown out of preschool for violating the dress code, but sure.
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“That battle has been fought and won,” said Scott Flanders, the company’s chief executive. “You’re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it’s just passé at this juncture.”
For a generation of American men, reading Playboy was a cultural rite, an illicit thrill consumed by flashlight. Now every teenage boy has an Internet-connected phone instead. Pornographic magazines, even those as storied as Playboy, have lost their shock value, their commercial value and their cultural relevance.
In the early 1980s, Caroline “Tula” Cossey was living the dream of every aspiring model. She was cast to play a Bond girl in the film For Your Eyes Only alongside Roger Moore. To accompany the film’s release, she appeared in a spread forPlayboy, featuring her and other Bond girls from the film.
Then, just as the Bond movie came out, a tabloid called News of the World outed Cossey against her will in a headline that read “James Bond Girl Was a Boy.” The tabloid’s headline sparked a media firestorm and Cossey was thrust into the spotlight as a trailblazer. She instantly became a role model for trans women. Since then, Cossey carried on with her acting and modeling, making it into the pages of Playboy once again in 1991 as well as penning two autobiographies.
In a new interview with Playboy about her groundbreaking career, Cossey, 60, (who now lives in suburban Atlanta with her second husband) said she was born as Barry Cossey and spent much of her life knowing that she was a woman. She completed gender-reassignment surgery in 1974 after years of other surgeries and treatments. In the 70s and 80s, she pursued her dream of modeling, appearing inHarper’s Bazaar and Australian Vogue. She also found fame as a “Page Three Girl,” a model in the pages of British paper The Sun.
