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Pubic Wars, a pun
Pun

A pun, or paronomasia, is a form of word play that deliberately exploits ambiguity between similar-sounding words for humour or rhetorical effect....
 on the Punic Wars
Punic Wars

The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Ancient Rome and Carthage from 264 to 146 BC. They were probably the largest wars yet of the ancient world....
, is the name given to the rivalry between the pornographic magazine
Pornographic magazine

Pornographic magazines, sometimes known as adult magazines, sex magazines, top-shelf magazines, blue books, or stick mags are magazines that contain content of a sexual nature, typically regarded as pornography....
s Playboy and Penthouse
Penthouse (magazine)

Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and soft-core pornography pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore pornography....
 during the 1960s and 1970s. Each magazine strove to show just a little bit more than the other, without crossing the "line of decency
Decency

Decency is conformity to Society standards of conduct and speech.Standards of decency vary greatly depending on the cultural context. Most nations have laws against indecency which regulate certain sexual acts, and restrict one's ability to display certain parts of the body in public ....
" generally accepted at the time.

In the 1950s it was generally agreed that nude photographs were not pornographic
Pornography

Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer. It is to a certain extent similar to erotica, which is the use of sexually arousing imagery....
 unless they showed pubic hair
Pubic hair

Although fine Vellus is present in the area in childhood, the term pubic hair is generally restricted to the heavier, longer and coarser hair that develops with puberty as an effect of rising levels of androgens....
 or, even worse, genitals.






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Pubic Wars, a pun
Pun

A pun, or paronomasia, is a form of word play that deliberately exploits ambiguity between similar-sounding words for humour or rhetorical effect....
 on the Punic Wars
Punic Wars

The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Ancient Rome and Carthage from 264 to 146 BC. They were probably the largest wars yet of the ancient world....
, is the name given to the rivalry between the pornographic magazine
Pornographic magazine

Pornographic magazines, sometimes known as adult magazines, sex magazines, top-shelf magazines, blue books, or stick mags are magazines that contain content of a sexual nature, typically regarded as pornography....
s Playboy and Penthouse
Penthouse (magazine)

Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and soft-core pornography pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore pornography....
 during the 1960s and 1970s. Each magazine strove to show just a little bit more than the other, without crossing the "line of decency
Decency

Decency is conformity to Society standards of conduct and speech.Standards of decency vary greatly depending on the cultural context. Most nations have laws against indecency which regulate certain sexual acts, and restrict one's ability to display certain parts of the body in public ....
" generally accepted at the time.

In the 1950s it was generally agreed that nude photographs were not pornographic
Pornography

Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer. It is to a certain extent similar to erotica, which is the use of sexually arousing imagery....
 unless they showed pubic hair
Pubic hair

Although fine Vellus is present in the area in childhood, the term pubic hair is generally restricted to the heavier, longer and coarser hair that develops with puberty as an effect of rising levels of androgens....
 or, even worse, genitals. Respectable photography was careful to come close to, but not cross over, this line.

Penthouse first published pictorials featuring visible female pubic hair in 1970. Playboy, however, showed a first slight glimpse of any pubic hair on Melodye Prentiss
Melodye Prentiss

Melodye Prentiss was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.Melodye was working in the Playboy editorial library when she was "discovered" by the magazine as Playmate material....
' centerfold (Miss July 1968), some 15 years after the magazine's introduction. With Playmate
Playmate

A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month . The PMOM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, as well as a short biography and the "Playmate Data Sheet", which lists her birthdate, measurements, turn-ons, and turn-offs....
s it was usually the case that the pubic area would be obscured by an item of clothing, a leg, or a piece of furniture. The first appearance of pubic hair in Playboy actually occurred in August 1969 in a pictorial featuring dancer/actress Paula Kelly
Paula Kelly (actress/dancer)

Paula Kelly is an Emmy Award-nominated African-American dancer and actress in motion pictures and television.Daughter of a jazz musician, Kelly was raised in New York City's Harlem where she attended the Fiorello H....
. A few more glimpses of pubic hair appeared in some pictorials and centerfolds, but it was not until January 1971 when Liv Lindeland
Liv Lindeland

Liv Lindeland is a Norway Model and actor. She was chosen as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in January 1971 and as the Playmate of the Year for 1972....
 showed clearly visible pubic hair in her pictorial. The first Playmate to clearly have the first full frontal nude centerfold was Miss January 1972, Marilyn Cole
Marilyn Cole

Marilyn Cole was Playboy magazine's January 1972 Playmate of the Month, as well as 1973's Playmate of the Year, the only Briton to hold that title....
. Incidentally, they both went on to become Playmate of the Year, respectively 1972 and 1973.

Eventually, the two magazines would move their content in opposite directions. Playboy positioned itself as the less explicit softcore
Softcore

Softcore pornography is a form of filmic or photographic pornography or eroticism that is less Sexually explicit material than hardcore pornography....
 alternative to be "read for the articles". Penthouse gravitated towards raunchier images, ultimately arriving at hardcore pornography
Hardcore pornography

Hardcore pornography is a form of pornography that features Sexually explicit material. The term was coined in the second half of the 20th century to distinguish it from softcore pornography....
 and photographs of women urinating, in the late 1990s. Under new ownership in 2005, Penthouse began to steer toward a more softcore direction as well.

See also

  • List of men's magazines
    List of men's magazines

    This is a list of magazines primarily marketed to men. The list has been split into subcategories according to the target audience of the magazines. This list includes both 'adult' magazines as well as more mainstream ones....