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Playboy to go gay in Britain
Herald Sun ^
| 4 April 2006
Posted on 04/03/2006 4:56:15 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
PLAYBOY, the US-based adult publisher and broadcaster, is considering using Britain as a testing ground for moving into the gay market for the first time, it was reported today.
Playboy wants to launch a new gay brand to boost revenues, the Times said.
Chief-executive Christine Hefner said: "We've extended the Playboy brand to women, and where there is a meaningful gay market, launching under a different brand is something we are very comfortable doing.
"In the UK, our television people are very interested, and I wouldn't be surprised if we launched something this year, given the importance of the market in Britain."
The Playboy group is planning to tap into the gay market as part of a strategy to diversify its interests away from the company's magazine, which is only just profitable despite a three-million-strong circulation.
It has already launched a range of clothing and accessories, mostly for women, and is planning to supply adult video clips to mobile phones.
According to The Business newspaper, Playboy could also launch a chain of shops across Europe this year. The group already has boutiques in Tokyo, Melbourne and Las Vegas in Nevada.
Playboy products are also sold in stores in Europe such as Selfridges in London and Collette in Paris.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: barf; chatroom; gayplayboy; gayporn; homosexualagenda; playboy; pommypoofters; poofters; rule1
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To: Little Bill
Yeah, they did get a bit toey about the last one! LOL!!!!
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posted on
04/03/2006 5:12:43 PM PDT
by
Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
To: Petronski
If I'm not mistaken, different publisher.
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posted on
04/03/2006 5:14:56 PM PDT
by
dighton
To: Aussie Dasher
Playboy going pink?
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posted on
04/03/2006 5:15:07 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(MOHAMMED LIED-PEOPLE DIED)
To: al baby
Thay there, fella!
To: Aussie Dasher
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posted on
04/03/2006 5:17:09 PM PDT
by
isthisnickcool
(Let's quit electing little rich kids that don't now the value of a dollar!)
To: Aussie Dasher
Yeah, the Admin gods pulled all of the interplay between the Islands before I could save them and send them to my brother who is interested in "Mal Dicta".
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posted on
04/03/2006 5:17:45 PM PDT
by
Little Bill
(A 37%'r, a Red Spot on a Blue State, rats are evil.)
To: dighton
Okay, though I won't ask how you might know that...
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posted on
04/03/2006 5:19:02 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(I love Cyborg!)
To: Aussie Dasher
Playboy is going to try to sell to gay British men as well as straight British men?
In the words of ex-SNL newsreader Norm Macdonald, "...this brings up the difficult issue of trying to tell the two apart...."
(OK, the Brits are covering our backs in Iraq and elsewhere, but my Irish half couldn't help but slide that one in!)
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posted on
04/03/2006 5:20:55 PM PDT
by
Yossarian
(The media is now simply running a 24/7 soap opera with Dubya cast as the arch villain.)
To: Petronski
A . . . uh, friend of mine knows something about Playboy. I'm happy to say that even
he knows nothing about Playgirl.
(No mention of Playgirl on Playboy's corporate overview.)
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posted on
04/03/2006 5:24:31 PM PDT
by
dighton
To: SandRat
or simply "Playbutt"
30
posted on
04/03/2006 5:31:46 PM PDT
by
headstamp
(Nothing lasts forever, Unless it does.)
To: Aussie Dasher
This would never have happened if Hugh were still alive.
31
posted on
04/03/2006 5:34:00 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(...oops, did I say that out loud? Bad Rich. BAD Rich.)
To: RichInOC
I think he is still with us...
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posted on
04/03/2006 5:36:22 PM PDT
by
Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
To: Aussie Dasher
What are they going to call this new sexual fantasy magazine,... Playwithboys?
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posted on
04/03/2006 5:38:46 PM PDT
by
Gritty
(Not shooting the worst kind of people is the cornerstone of European foreign policy – P.J. O’Rourke)
To: RichInOC
I know. I was trying to be funny. But this is still very, very wrong.
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posted on
04/03/2006 5:41:31 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(...I don't need to see guys wearing ears, collar, cuffs and cottontailed Speedos. I just don't.)
To: Aussie Dasher
man talk about the end of an era...
To: Aussie Dasher
Maybe they could get Barney Frank for their first centerfold!!
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posted on
04/03/2006 5:45:45 PM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
To: RichInOC; Aussie Dasher
Sorry about that. See #34. I replied to myself instead of you.
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posted on
04/03/2006 5:46:16 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(...I don't need to see guys wearing ears, collar, cuffs and cottontailed Speedos. I just don't.)
To: hole_n_one
That looks a bit like Al Gore, 14 years and 60 pounds ago.
38
posted on
04/03/2006 6:03:45 PM PDT
by
Denver Ditdat
(Melting solder since 1975)
To: Aussie Dasher
I thought Playgirl was the gay mag.
39
posted on
04/03/2006 6:05:50 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: Aussie Dasher
Last time I watched the Playboy channel, there was a call-in show hosted by two bunnies.
The 'straight' guys called to ask the women to engage in gay sexual acts, such as playing with each other's breasts and other things too.
Playboy has always been gay, just gay sexual acts among women instead of men.
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posted on
04/03/2006 6:07:22 PM PDT
by
daivid
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