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    Why Is Playboy So Popular

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    Playboy set to launch its very own cryptocurrency wallet service There are several publications that have left a mark on history over the years – Playboy is certainly one of them. An absolute lightning rod for controversy, the original “American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine” built its reputation through its nude pictorials. At one point in time, it sold a staggering 7,161,561 copies of a single issue – the November 1972 edition if you’re interested in looking it up. What’s helped…

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    Playboys Should Be Banned

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    I can say with confidence and experience that every High School aged teen has heard everything in this book. Parents of these kids should think about themselves because I bet every father was sneaking into their parents bedroom to look at Dad’s Playboys. The kids know this material and can relate to it which, in turn, will make it much easier…

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    The Sardonic Use of ‘Playboy’ Christy, the protagonist, lands up in Mayo in a wretched condition. He was hungry and frightened. The crime of killing his own father has shaken him thoroughly and he is guilty for the same. Ironically, in the strange atmosphere of Mayo, where people are strangely invested with a quality of wild imagination, such heinous crime has been seen as a heroic act. And as a result of it a personality with self-confidence emerges of Christy and his shaken and shocked…

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    Ryan Long

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    Ryan Long was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley or “the Valley” which is just outside of the city of Los Angeles. When he was born there was something wrong with his foot, a ‘club foot’ is what the doctor described to his Mother as the condition that he was born with. Long spent the first two years of his life in surgeries and casts with bars bolted to the sides of his legs in order to straighten out his foot and be able to walk correctly. As for Long’s family, he’s the first of 2…

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    The Playboy of the Western World is a comedy written by J.M. Synge and performed in the Abbey Theatre in 1907. The play is set in the west of Ireland, in County Mayo and is set in a country public house or shebeen and the playwright attempted to write the way Irish people actually spoke English, the language is known as Hiberno-English, there is also a lyrical, poetic quality to the language of the play. The actors all speak in a colloquial dialect that would have been authentic at the time.…

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    The second is the professional woman; she’s independent, ambitious, and self-confidant, and the third is the Playboy bunny, also known as the sex object. All three of these subtypes are expected to be concerned with having and caring for children as well. There are four male subtypes they differ from the female’s subtypes in that it doesn’t describe what they do, but how they should do it. First is status, which means they should achieve success and others respect, second, toughness, they need…

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    the men's magazine Playboy, portrayed men as the sex objects that women fall over for. The 70's started out well for playboy, but like all other magazines, it needed revenue from advertising to stay afloat. “Playboy needed to prove two things to advertisers the first being that only seedy men purchase playboy and secondly that the viewer was looking at more then just the pictures”(Bridges, 2012 ). Playboy struggled with the second one in particular. To combat this issue Playboy produced a series…

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    Playboy is a form of entertainment that is globally known for their magazines that display sexually explicit content. Playboy Entertainment Group was established to manage the Playboy empire; it is in charge of including all publications of Playboy in print, television, radio and internet media. Playboy transmits their channels to people who pay for their service every month or for people who pay-per-view…

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    staged a production of John Millington Synge’s play, The Playboy of the Western World, the audience was so put off by its immoral content and that a weeklong riot occurred. William Butler Yeats would have to stand up and defend the Irish National Theatre Society’s right to present a play with such content. His courage the Monday following the Playboy Riots secured for the Abbey the right of the title “Irish National Theatre.” Today The Playboy of the Western World has become canonized and is…

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    Ines Rou Research Paper

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    You may not know Ines Rau, but soon, if she realizes her second dream, the French trans model will be a household name. http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/10/19/playboy-announces-first-transgender-playmate/ It's taken some six decades, but in a first for the media company the late Hugh Hefner built, the magazine is featuring a transgender Playmate, according to a new Breitbart report. Ines, a 26-year-old fashion model became Playboy's first trans Playmate since its inception in 1953. Ines…

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