Club is a monthly American

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 pornographic magazine

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 which is a spin-off

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 publication of the United Kingdom's Club International

Club International

Club International is a United Kingdom-based magazine that depicts softcore pornographic pictures of women. It is a sister magazine of American magazine Club. Club International was founded in 1972 and is published every four weeks, making thirteen issues per year...

. Club features sexually oriented articles, video reviews, and pictorials that include hardcore pornography

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, masturbation

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, dildo

Dildo

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 usage, and lesbianism

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During the early and mid 1990s the magazine featured softcore and simulated sex pictorials and had at least two contract models that appeared monthly (Charmaine Sinclair

Charmaine Sinclair

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 and Jo Guest

Jo Guest

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). Club and its UK sister publication, Club International, are the flagship publications for Paul Raymond Publications

Paul Raymond Publications

Paul Raymond Publications is a British men's softcore pornography publisher which releases ten pornographic magazine titles each month; Escort, Club International, Just Girls, Mayfair, Men Only, Men's World, Razzle, Swing Mag, Club DVD and Escort DVD.Paul Raymond had launched his first magazine,...

 which distributes eight of the ten top selling adult magazines in the UK.

Paragon Publishing, the U.S. franchisee of Club, has recently filed for bankruptcy

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. The publishing was taken over by Paul Raymond Publications. In August of 2009, Magna Publishing Group purchased Club Magazine and its sister publications from Club Media Inc., increasing the total number of titles it publishes to over 60. The deal also included sister publications Club International, Club Confidential and Best of Club. Magna Publishing Group also produces such established men's magazine titles such as Swank, Genesis, Fox, Gallery, Velvet and Gent.

The youngest model who was intentionally published in a nude pictorial in Club was Tamara Alleyne, an English model stated to be 16 years old, in the July 1976 and September 1976 issues. Alleyne also appeared in Men Only

Men Only

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the same year and her age was likewise revealed there. Traci Lords

Traci Lords

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was even younger (15) in the photos that appeared in the September 1984 issue (some of which had appeared in Paul Raymond's Model Directory in March 1984), but the magazine's staff did not know Lords was under 18.