Celebrities Posing for Playboy

Posing for Playboy can boost the exposure of a celebrity through the roof. Posing for Playboy can resuscitate a dead or dying career overnight. Posing for playboy can also bring international fame for a celebrity who might only have regional or national recognition. The list of celebrities who have posed for Playboy over the years is extensive, and their reason is generally the same; Advertising.

Marilyn Monroe got a tremendous boost from her exposure in Playboy, restarting a virtually stalled career. Latoya Jackson, Belinda Carlisle and Samantha Fox have all posed in Playboy and benefited greatly from the publicity. Others have actually been hurt by posing for Playboy, although it is far more rare. Posing for Playboy for exposure is a common cause cited by female performers, knowing it can make or break a career.

In today's age of modern technology, Playboy is slightly less relevant, as is all print since the advent of the web. Finding photos of beautiful starlets is as easy as a few clicks and a Google. Does posing for Playboy still earn the chart boost that it once did? While it can't be argued that Playboy can still launch a career, it is questionable whether it can still successfully relaunch or resuscitate a career in the modern age. Once, Playboy was king of the newsstands, but now it has fallen in stature and more explicit content, especially video content, has stolen some of the venerable magazine's glory.

In the case of content, many would argue that Playboy has left money on the table by not moving to a more profitable and graphic sexual content, matching what a younger, more demanding audience is in the market for. But retaining the gentlemanly image of the brand is thought to be critical to Playboy's success. After all, it is a magazine for playboys, sophisticated, worldly types who tend to be more reserved in their debauchery, as compared to the average adult website demographic.