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A Penis on Every Page: The Rise and Fall of Playgirl It was supposed to be a raunchy, revolutionary magazine for women. It didn't exactly turn out that way. Douglas Lambert wanted to give Playboy a run for its money. It was 1971, and Hugh Hefner's magazine had created a new mainstream market for soft-core porn. Lambert, a nightclub owner in Garden Grove, California, decided to get in on the action. Lambert's wife Jenny saw a bigger opportunity: a magazine with nude male centerfolds. Lambert wasn't sold. What woman wanted to ogle photos of nude men, much less buy a magazine full of them? But he slowly realized Jenny might be on to something. The sexual revolution was well under way, and Lambert "sensed the woman of the '70s was eager to become part" of it, as he'd eventually write in promo copy for his new magazine. So in the summer of 1971, Lambert, along with William Miles Jr., an experienced adman who served as Playgirl's executive vice president...

Statue of Naked Woman Is Blocked From National Mall The National Park Service has blocked activists from installing a giant sculpture of a nude woman on the National Mall in Washington. In a letter on Wednesday to the group seeking to install the statue, the park service’s acting regional director, Rick Obernesser, said that the agency had chosen to deny requests to put the 45-foot-tall sculpture, titled “R-Evolution,” “on the turf or hardscape near the Washington Monument.” Placing the piece on the turf for 91 days was likely to “significantly damage” the grounds, he wrote. Putting such a tall sculpture near the base of the Washington Monument, he said, was “likely to have an adverse effect on the aesthetics, including the cultural identity, of the area.” In its statement on Thursday, the group, Catharsis on the Mall, said it was “stunned” by what it said was the park service’s “sudden last-minute retraction.” A spokeswoman for the group threatened legal action to defend what she said...

Why are two naked women covered in jam sitting on a bench on Market Street? This is the moment two naked women apparently covered in jam sat on a bench in the middle of Manchester city centre . Bewildered shoppers stopped to watch the spectacle as it unfolded on Market Street just before midday on Wednesday (October 10). A crowd formed around the two women, who sat on a bench outside Barclays bank in the middle of the busy shopping street.Video footage show the women covered head to toe in a red substance sitting side by side. Other images show them covering themselves in white sheets as two police officers speak to themOne onlooker told the M.E.N that the two women appeared to be covered in what looked like some kind of red jamHe said: "They looked like they were rubbing strawberry jam on each other." Confused onlookers took to Twitter to try and find out who and why they were there Issy Thwaite wrote: "Why on earth have I just seen two girls completely naked COVERED IN...

India: Woman beaten up, paraded half-naked over inter-caste affair Dubai: She screamed and begged for mercy, but nothing stopped the men from brutally thrashing the 19-year-old with sticks, stripping her and parading her half-naked. These men were her own family and she was being punished. What for? The tribal woman's alleged crime was that she had fallen in love and eloped with a man from a different tribe. A disturbing video of this incident that occurred in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh's Alirajpur district on September 1, has gone viral on Twitter.We may have reached the 21st century, but caste-based violence still exists in India. Twitter users who shared the video are shocked. Indian filmmaker Vinod Kapri shared the video by Indian journalist Makarand Kale on Tuesday and wrote: “OMG. This is horrible: [A] young tribal woman paraded, beaten over inter-caste affair in MP.” The one-minute-42-seconds long video, shot on a mobile phone, shows the girl being flogged with s...

Vaginal Rejuvenation Is Big BusinessVaginal rejuvenation” has a mysterious ring to it,  hinting at the kinds of results some doctors say lasers or radiofrequency may deliver: vaginal tightening, better lubrication, and toe-curling orgasms for the rest of your life. All you have to do is get your vagina prodded with a laser or radio-frequency probe and pay about $3,000 for the privilege. Some patients say it doesn’t hurt as much as you’d think, and that when you walk out, you’d never even know you’d birthed two children or had your first hot flash five years ago. There are even “intimate spas” where you can get a vaginal steam (supposedly odor reducing), platelet-rich plasma injections (with the goal of better climaxes), and a vaginal rejuvenation laser treatment. How’s that for a relaxing spa day? Peeing when you laugh, dryness, reduced sensation—all things of the past. At least that’s the idea. But it begs a few questions.Best of Beauty 2024 Is Here—See the Winners! Heat's On Vagi...

Arts and Culture Archives of beauty and pain: A century of African women in photos Catherine E McKinley’s African Lookbook is a window into the rich history of African photography – and the women who were at the centre of the frame. The mother and daughter tilt their heads, one towards the other. Their hair is  intricately braided, woven with beads, and covered with a carefully knotted wrap. The young girl sits on her mother’s lap; the mother’s hand, with its visible wedding band, is placed firmly upon her daughter’s, and perfectly to call attention to the girl’s  wide cuff bracelet. The sitters for this photo, circa the 1950s, by Malian photographer Barthelely Koné, wear empire-waist dresses cut of densely patterned African cloth, their fashion a little African, a little European. The mother’s face is serene, open. Her slightly lowered eyes meet the viewer’s, the daughter’s even more directly. Koné’s portrait is a “story of inheritance”, Catherine E McKinley writes in The Afr...

Meet the naked tribes of Nigeria — where people wear leaves and little to nothing There are a few native tribes in Nigeria that have successfully resisted influence from the Western world. Despite being in the 21st century, these rural communities have managed to  preserve their culture and continue to practice nudity. Meet the naked tribes of Nigeria: Koma These hill-dwelling people live in the Alantika Mountains, spanning the border between the southeast of Yola, the capital of Adamawa State in Nigeria, and Northern Cameroon. They were discovered in 1986 by a corps member in the then-Gongola State of Northern Nigeria, Nigerian newspaper The Spectator reported in July 2010. They were officially recognized as Nigerians in 1961 and now have 17 villages on the Nigerian side. Years later, the people of Koma have managed to exist outside of modern civilization. Hidden away in these hills, they move around freely naked or near-naked in leaves and loincloths. They cook with fire made wit...