Playboy and Vulvas......For my next post I will be writing about labiaplasty, but I thought I would share some insight into a study I discovered while doing research. I found a paper that outlines changes of vulvas from the 1960s to 2013 in playboy magazine centrefolds. They studied over 493 magazines and discovered the vulva was fully exposed from 𝟎 instances in the 1950s to 𝟕𝟖.𝟔% in 2013. Alongside this is the grooming ( minimal to no hair) grew from 𝟏𝟏.𝟒% of images from the 1990s to 𝟕𝟖.𝟓% from 2010. Now, there isn’t a write up on what these vulvas look like, apart from bald or minimal hair! But they did say that it seems that Playboy digitally alters the image to fit into the "western ideal beauty standard".
Placik, O. J., & Arkins, J. P. (2014). Plastic surgery trends parallel Playboy magazine: the pudenda preoccupation. Aesthetic Surgery Journal, 34, 2