“Stuff like that wouldn’t have happened a year ago, for sure,” she said. She added that elsewhere in the publication, “I’ve been sneaking in some penises, too.” “We have red hair, blond hair, black hair - it’s basically every color of the rainbow,” Liz Suman, 35, the magazine’s arts editor, told me. The fall issue will feature a photo essay by the artist Marilyn Minter celebrating female pubic hair. There is a queer cartoon and a feature on gender-neutral sex toys. Kelly led to multiple charges against the singer. The summer issue, out now, features an interview with Tarana Burke, the activist who founded the MeToo movement, conducted by Dream Hampton, whose documentary about R. (He said he would start his own adult content portal, HefPost.) A Playboy spokeswoman said the Hefner family no longer had a financial stake in the company. Not Hugh, of course, nor his daughter, Christie, who was chairwoman and chief executive from 1988 through 2008, nor his son Cooper, who stepped down as chief creative officer in April. Hefner created - and, for the first time in Playboy’s history, with no Hefners involved. The result is a magazine that is virtually unrecognizable from the one Mr. Hefner been a forward-thinking voice for sexual liberation and free speech, or a creepy old lech who fostered a culture of misogyny? But when Playboy’s founder, Hugh Hefner, died in 2017, that argument grew louder: Had Mr. This is a newer, woke-er, more inclusive Playboy - if you believe what company executives tell you, and if you are inclined to give an aging brand yet another chance at reinvention.Įven before the #MeToo movement, there had long been debate over whether a publication with the tag line “Entertainment for Men” had any place in an equitable world. And I thought: ‘Wait, they’re hiring me to shoot the cover? Do they know I’m gay?’” “I hadn’t paid attention to Playboy for many years, since I was a kid. “When they called me for this shoot, I thought there must be some kind of mistake,” said Ed Freeman, the fine art photographer who created the cover image. The third, a Belgian artist, recently filmed herself walking naked through a Hasidic neighborhood of Brooklyn during a sacred holiday. Another is an underwater dancer who promotes ocean conservation. One uses performance art and digital media to share stories about the H.I.V. The women who would pose in that water - their limbs wrapped around one another in a balletlike pose - were not simply models but activists. Singh said, seated beneath a 1988 Herb Ritts portrait of Cindy Crawford. “The water is meant to represent gender and sexual fluidity,” Mr.

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