Playboy Cyber Club
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The Playboy Cyber Club is the subscription based premium service portion of Playboy Online
(Playboy.com) that serves as an online complement to Playboy
magazine, the U.S. and World's biggest selling men's magazine. It debuted in 1995 as part of Playboy Online and continues as its premium service today. It has many features that are very similar to the print edition of the magazine, but also produces much original content. It offers large amounts of exclusive material, such as archived photoshoots and bonus material such as movies and live chats, that are not in the print edition. In addition, the cyber edition is interactive, with membership votes to select featured models. It welcomes amateur photos of all forms and even has a feature of cellular phone photos called Sex Cells taken by the Playboy models themselves.
Playboy Online
Playboy Online is the internet business segment of Playboy Enterprises. It produces some original content that differs from print editions of the publications produced by Playboy Publishing, one of the three business segments of Playboy Enterpises...
(Playboy.com) that serves as an online complement to Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
magazine, the U.S. and World's biggest selling men's magazine. It debuted in 1995 as part of Playboy Online and continues as its premium service today. It has many features that are very similar to the print edition of the magazine, but also produces much original content. It offers large amounts of exclusive material, such as archived photoshoots and bonus material such as movies and live chats, that are not in the print edition. In addition, the cyber edition is interactive, with membership votes to select featured models. It welcomes amateur photos of all forms and even has a feature of cellular phone photos called Sex Cells taken by the Playboy models themselves.
Cyber Club features
- Cyber Girls- The models appearing in the featured pictorials have been called Playboy Cyber GirlPlayboy Cyber GirlA Playboy Cyber Girl is any Playboy model who has posed for Playboy's online Cyber Club as a Cyber Girl of the Week.Each weekly Cyber Girl is entered into an online election by Playboy Cyber Club members for Cyber Girl of the Month...
s since Stephanie HeinrichStephanie HeinrichStephanie Heinrich is an American model and actress.She became Playboy's first Cyber Girl of the Week in September 2000 and the first Cyber Girl of the Month ....
was spotlighted in August 2000. There are corporate selections of Cyber Girl of the Week and membership elections of Cyber Girl of the Month and Cyber Girl of the YearCyber Girl of the YearCyber Girl of the Year is a title given to the year's most popular model in Playboy's Cyber Club Cyber Girls feature.-Voting:The popularity of the models is determined by a two tiered internet voting system of Cyber Club members. Each week, the Cyber Club posts photos of a new Cyber Girls of the...
. A model that wins the Cyber Girl of the month award always is 4 months after her weekly pictorial (If she is a Cyber Girl of the week in August and wins the monthly award, she will be Cyber Girl of the Month for December) - Playmate Exclusives - Usually before the new print edition of PlayboyPlayboyPlayboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
is available, a "preview pictorial" of the upcoming Playmate of the Month is posted on the Cyber Club. Additional exclusive pictures of current Playmates and previously unreleased photos of past Playmates are posted. - Coeds - Playboy's Coed of the Week began as Coed of the Month from June 2001 to August 2004. Coed of the Week began the following month. In March 2006, Coed of the Month voting among Coeds of the Week began. The Coed of the month is similar to the process for Cyber Girl except the Coed of the Month is always 2 months after her weekly pictorial.
- Sexy Girls Next Door - (also SGND) one of the Cyber Club's oldest features, starting in 1998. A new amateur model proclaimed "The Sexy Girl Next Door" was given a monthly pictorial on the site.
- Special Editions Xtreme - S.E.X. is a more explicit pictorial.
- Employee of the Month - (also EOTM and Cheerleader of the Month) A pictorial that features an (usually) amateur model with an interesting line of work, such as zookeeperZookeeperA zookeeper is a worker in a zoo, responsible for the feeding and daily care of the animals. As part of their routine, they clean the exhibits and report health problems...
, interior designer, or cheerleader debuted in October 2004. Professional Cheerleaders (specifically from the NFL) have been the overwhelming favorite recently, but cannot pose nude due to their contracts. From October 2005 to February 2006 this feature was also known as Cheerleader of the Month. - International Beauties - Playboy spotlights one of their international models in a monthly pictorial.
- Rookie Babe - A recent addition to the Cyber Club (as of 2006), in association with RookieBabe (a nude amateur modelling company), Playboy is showcasing some of their models on the Cyber Club.
- Daily Double - The Daily Double feature began in 1998 and features daily posting of two never-before-seen pictures of models who have posed for one of the companies numerous publications. This feature does not currently have a link on Playboy Online, is only able to be accessed from the Cyber Club itself, and can't be seen outside of it....
- Celebrities - There is a section devoted entirely to celebrities who have posed for Playboy in the Cyber Club. They are divided into the following categories: Actresses, Women of... (such as Women of AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
or Women of StarbucksStarbucksStarbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 17,009 stores in 55 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, over 700 in the United Kingdom, and...
), Supermodels,In the News, Athletes, Celebrity Photographers (celebrity photographer photographs of PlaymatePlaymateA Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month . The PMOM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, as well as a short biography and the "Playmate Data Sheet", which lists her birthdate, measurements, turn-ons, and...
s or Playboy Special EditionPlayboy Special EditionPlayboy Special Editions are a spin-off series of Playboy magazine devoted entirely to softcore nude photographs of the Playboy models that are found sporadically scattered in the monthly Playboy magazine.Unlike the monthly magazine, which features a variety of articles, opinion columns, and works...
models). - SuicideGirlsSuicideGirlsSuicideGirls is a website that features softcore pornography and text profiles of goth, punk and indie-styled young women who are known as the "Suicide Girls"...
- Pictorials of select girls from the SuicideGirls website have been available since Playboy partnered with them. The galleries have not been updated for at least one year.