ROUGH DRAFT PROCESS PAPER!!!!!!

Maurice Wise
Ashley Brown
TOPIC SELECTION ESSAY


For this years National History Day competition we chose to do the innovation of Playboy Magazine.

Playboy was first made in 1953, in Chicago, Illinois by Hugh Hefner. They used a loan of $1,000 from

Hugh's mom. The title of the magazine was first called Stag Party, but Hugh couldn't use that because

another magazine called Stag had called him and said that they would protect the trademark if he tried

to publish using that name. Hugh Hefner and his co-founder Eldon Sellers suggested to name the

magazine “Playboy” because his mother had worked for the Playboy Automobile Company. Hugh and

Eldon published their first magazine in December 1953 with the first model being the infamous

Marilyn Monroe. Hugh made the magazine in the kitchen of his house at Hyde Park. The picture that

was used on the cover was originally suppose to be a calender photo but the magazine sold out within a

week of being published.

Around the time when playboy was being thought of society was really still grasping the idea of

both women and men expressing sexuality publicly. A lot of people felt that women were to be looked

as just a wife and homemaker and not an object of sexual desires. People like Marilyn Monroe and

Hugh Hefner put a new meaning on what it was to be a women in society and to express femininity. A

lot of parts of Asia like India and Malaysia. IN 2006 Indonesia made their own version of Playboy but

before they had the chance to publish the first issue the government had tried to ban in using an anti-

pornography rule but they couldn't so the IDF ( Islamic Defenders Front which was a Muslim

organization went against it because of its “pornography”.

By making Playboy, Hugh Hefner kind of made a impact it gave young, college-bound and college-

going young adults an outlet for sexual tension and repression. Society had been taught the

specific roles for every person in the community; the women were homemakers, and the men were

workers. BY making this magazine he also contradicted them pre-set roles by making women sex

symbols. Through the magazine Hugh Hefner was able to somewhat connect with the 1950's-1960's

generation, because when he was younger he also wanted to express his self independently. The

magazine caused a lot rebellion from family life, which made Playboy the icon for the rebellion against

society roles and how you are suppose to be.

independent

For NHD me and my partner ashley brown have decided to keep our topic of the Innovation of PLayboy magazine. We decided that this would fit best because it can be broken down to more deeper levels as far as society, and culture. We still plan on doing an exhibit. They tried to convince us to do a website but we feel that the website would somewhat be too "pornographic" if we are talking about playboy.

independent project!

Today in the computer lab  i worked on refining my sociology project as well as work on proposal for NHD project. My topic was Playboy and how it redefined what sexuality was but unfortunately it had to be changed so now I'm back at sage one. i plan on working with Stephanie Townsend and Ashley Brown on this project.

independent project!

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