As Donna Summer once put it: “Disco is an indoor playground. Whatever worries you’ve got – lose them. Whatever energy you have – use it.”

The world of disco was a wonderfully hedonistic place. And Bill Bernstein’s photography of the nightlife in late ’70s New York showcases some of its greatest discotheques. Originally commissioned by The Village Voice to cover the emerging scene, Bernstein chronicled all that was hot and happening in the clubs of Manhattan.

The big daddy in the New York club scene was Studio 54 on West 54th Street. Originally the Gallo Opera House, from 1977 to 1981 managers Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager ran Studio 54 as a nightclub as notorious as its clientele.

When the party’s over…

You’d be subjected to being handpicked from the crowd outside, rather than any old fashioned queueing. Once inside, anything went. Cocaine, thongs, bumming, bumping into Liza Minelli, Grace Jones, Elizabeth Taylor, Truman Capote or even Bianca Jagger on a horse – you could do all that and more in the hedonist’s paradise.

Chic’s Nile Rodgers claimed he’d set up shop in the ladies’ washrooms most evenings (the perv), except for the New Year’s Eve when the doorman didn’t believe who he and Chic bandmate Bernard Edwards were. The Chic pair went home narked and jammed on a song called Fuck Off, which would eventually become Le Freak.

It may well have been the same New Year’s Eve where event planner Robert Isabell dumped FOUR TONS of glitter onto the dancefloor, which was still being found in crevices and crooks for the next year.

Le Clique est chic

Rubell and Shrager once gave keen regular Andy Warhol a dustbin filled with cash (which the artist claimed was the best present ever). The staff uniform usually consisted of hotpants and little else, regardless of gender. Meanwhile the performing turns in the first couple of years included Stevie Wonder, Divine, Donna Summer and The Village People.

The party came crashing down when Shrager and Rubell were arrested and pleaded guilty to tax evasion, which is one of the downsides of bragging about making more money than the Mafia in its first year. Studio 54’s final party saw Shrager and Rubell serenaded by Diana Ross, in front of a crowd including Ryan O’Neal, Jack Nicholson, Sylvester Stallone and Richard Gere.

But there were more clubs than just Studio 54, and Bernstein catalogued them all, as captured by a new book and photo exhibition. There were legendary parties at The Paradise Garage – a magical space where the foundations of house music began to form – The Mudd Club and Barnum Room.

Places such as Better Days, which attracted a gay black/Latino crowd and the pop-up Le Clique #1 which changed location weekly, pre-empting such Shoreditch-like antics by three decades. Bernstein filmed punters at Studio 54’s main rival Xenon, as well as at 2001 Odyssey – the club whose dancefloor was used in the key scenes in Saturday Night Fever. 

Sybil disobedience

It wasn’t all just disco. Bernstein took photos of Hurrah Club, a punkier New Wave joint that favoured the narrow-mindedness of the “Disco Sucks” movement. Bernstein was hip to the changing moods leading up to the Disco Demolition, a now-notorious event where some cloth-eared idiots took over a football stadium and destroyed disco records.

Such intelligent behaviour basically destroyed the careers of the likes of Chic in the States overnight.

Disco offers a glimpse into a wonderful decadent world unlikely to ever be witnessed again. A glamorous world that had no idea of the oncoming storm of the 1980s, when Aids and hard drugs would blight the scene. 

Such hedonism is to be mourned in the music world’s current age of beige.

Disco under the covers

Disco: The Bill Bernstein Photographs is published by Real Art Press and is out now. The accompanying exhibition runs until January 24 at London’s Serena Morton Gallery.

studio 54 and the golden age of glitterballs

She may be Size 8, but Daisy Lowe loves desserts.

The self-professed foodie had her first cookery book published last year, Sweetness & Light.

Now the 26-year-old gadabout has gone one step further by combining her modelling career with that sweet tooth, becoming brand ambassador for new pud brand Naughty But Rice. 

The position has seen Lowe – who has featured on the runway for fashion powerhouses including Chanel, Henry Holland and Vivienne Westwood – pose in a series of shots entitled Bring Out The Naughty. 

Lowe said: “I’m delighted to be working with such an exciting, delicious new brand. I can’t wait for the fun ahead and to start working on ideas for my own limited edition pot to launch later next year!”

Lowe rider

Seeing Lowe doused in caramel would make you think she would have no trouble finding a potential suitor, but she revealed in a recent Guardian interview: “I’m a very sensual being, and very tactile, but I have been single for a long time so I’m not as sexual as I’d like to be.”

As well as featuring in Vogue and Tatler, Lowe also posed for Playboy back in 2011. Reflecting on her nude shoots, Lowe explained: “I have done naked shoots, which means everyone thinks I’m a deviant, but I think the female form is something to be celebrated. The male form, too, but I don’t have one of those.”

As good as she looks dripping in dessert, Lowe admitted she doesn’t find it easy to be photographed naked. “I have to become a character to have the confidence to take my clothes off. If I was Daisy, I’d be an awkward nightmare.”

Mouth-watering

At size 8, Lowe has often incredibly been referred to as “curvy” in the fashion industry, and recently modelled for Reformation, the LA fashion brand aimed at women with bigger boobs. She explained to Marie Claire: “Beauty doesn’t have to be confined to one singular tiny frame and I’ve always really enjoyed standing up for women and representing different shapes within the industry.”

As well as writing her first book and continuing her modelling career, Lowe has begun her acting career, in deep sea thriller Pressure. She’s also set to star in period drama Tulip Fever next year.

Despite this schedule, Lowe surprisingly hasn’t built up much of a personal estate. She explained: “I’m terrible at holding on to money. Money is a way of being able to facilitate having a good time. I love travelling and I love nice clothes. Because I always buy flights, dinners and things for my friends – aside from my house and a nice wardrobe, I don’t have much to show for it.”

Juicy

Having dated Mark Ronson and Matt Smith, as well as being linked to Tinie Tempah and Theo Hutchcraft  of Hurts, Lowe has previously been known for her party lifestyle. However, she recently described to The Daily Mail how she’s now “good 80 per cent of the time, but bad for the other 20.”

Some of that 20 per cent was recently spent at a party held by Nick Grimshaw. Lowe said: “The party was a good night with lots of dancing. There were loads of us at Shoreditch House – Florence Welch played, Katy B sang and Annie Mac DJd. We were all so drunk that we jumped in the pool at the end.”

Sounds almost as decadent as her puddings.

daisy lowe: naughty but nice

At 23, Selena Gomez seriously shed her Disney past after posing topless on the cover of her Revival album.

Fortunately, she’s managed to do so without the aid of inflatable cocks like Miley Cyrus and maintained her dignity. And with almost 55 million Selenators following her on Instagram, it’s clearly working.

Gomez recently appeared at a Victoria’s Secret show, performing Me & My Girls, and now she’s dropped a teaser video for Hands To Myself, in which she poses in black lingerie, leaving her Barney & Friends days long behind her.

Losing that candy-coated image began when she played bikini-clad boozer Faith alongside James Franco in Harmony Korine’s beach-party-done-as art-house film Spring Breakers.

Since then, Gomez has ditched having her mum manage her. Speaking to InStyle, Gomez explains: “I knew I had to change something as I was recycling the same choices over and over again.

“I’m horrible at change and it’s terrifying, but also liberating. I had to pull myself out of this vortex of how people perceive me because I’ve been doing this since I was seven.”

Born in Texas, Gomez grew up with mum Mandy Teefey, who gave birth to Gomez when she was 16 before divorcing her father five-years later.

Selena & friends

She landed her breakout role on the Disney Channel’s Wizards Of Waverly Place aged 15, later dating reformed douchebag Justin Bieber – in his douchier days – for four years until 2014.

When pushed on Bieber now, Gomez remains coy. “It’s really hard because I’m a nice person. I’m just tired of talking about it. I never intended for my life to become a tabloid story.”

“I give birth and had to wear a prosthetic vagina, now that was awkward!”

But a tabloid story it has become.

After being linked to One Direction defector Zayn Malik for the simple reason that they were following each other on Twitter, (“If he had asked me on a date, I would be seen with him. Just kidding, but not kidding.”) Gomez has now been seen out with Niall Horan.

Not that Gomez is comfortable with dating. “I hate dating. I’m weirded out by the idea that a guy has Googled me before we meet – that has happened. I feel like I look 16 sometimes, which is a bummer as I would love to date older guys.”

Me & My Girls

Gomez inevitably goes to every pop star’s best mate Taylor Swift for relationship advice. “People have this fantasy that we’re in our underwear, having pillow fights,” she admits, which is essentially true. ”But we just play good music and eat, and hang out.”

Gomez has also been working with Franco again, playing a young mother in an as-yet-untitled film he directed. She explains: “I give birth and had to wear a prosthetic vagina. Now that was awkward!”

Awkwardness aside, Gomez is established as a global phenomenon, firmly shedding her previous tag of ‘Bieber’s ex’. It seems to be mainly because, having grown-up, she’s comfortable in her own skin

But she’s still dubious about the effect social media has on people of her age. “Comparison. Every person of my generation does it, and that’s the number-one thief of joy, genuinely.”

Bet Gomez loves those Miley Cyrus comparisons, then.

selena gomez: ‘i didn’t want my life to become a tabloid story’

“Miles Aldridge”, says David Lynch, “sees a colour-coordinated, graphically pure, hard-edged reality”.

Marilyn Manson has described the London-born photographer as “a director at heart. His images are anything but portraits of a subject. They are his actors, his actresses…

“There is genius in the very deliberate blankness on the face of the models that enables a transference of identity”, continues the Antichrist Superstar singer. “He always draws you into an arrested fetish that seems as forbidden as a little girl’s diary…”

If you say so, Mazza. Without doubt Aldridge’s acclaimed photographs are stylish, sophisticated and subversive. His graphic designer father Alan was an influence, as later were fashion photographer Richard Avedon and Fellini.

As a child, Aldridge met family friends such as John Lennon and Elton John – his father designed album sleeves for The Who and Elton, but Aldridge says: “We weren’t moneyed. My father was terrible with money.”

His two sisters were models. After studying illustration at Central St Martins, he directed pop videos for three years for the likes of The Charlatans before landing his break as a fashion photographer with Vogue via his then-girlfriend. He’s since shot for Armani, Yves St Laurent and Lagerfeld.

The art world has embraced his images, with exhibitions worldwide including a major 2010 retrospective at London’s Somerset House titled I Only Want You To Love Me. “Women and colour are Aldridge’s twin obsessions”, ran the gallery’s pitch. “His work is filled with glamorous, beautiful women, from dazed housewives and decadent beauties to sunbathing sexpots and ecstatic virgins. Luscious colours dazzle from every image…” 

Aldridge’s pictures of Jarvis Cocker and Lily Cole are in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery. He was married to American model Kristen McMenamy – Juergen Teller’s muse – for 16 years until 2013. (Naomi Campbell was a bridesmaid). The couple have two sons.

Aldridge’s advertising work for MAC cosmetics resulted in the book Miles of MAC. Here are just some of the striking images from it.

1

Scary movie

2

Night fever

3

Hulk smash

4

Femme fatale

5

Tripping out

6

Catpeople

Miles and miles…

i can see for miles

It’s been difficult to miss Miranda Kerr today. First, her nude cover of Australian Harpers Bazaar emerged, then the she appeared as the ninth day of LOVE magazine’s LOVE Advent campaign. 

The video shows the former Victoria’s Secret model pose topless before wandering across a pool in a lingerie-themed early Christmas present to the world.

Having modelled from a young age, Kerr’s landed multiple Vogue covers and been the face of a number of brands including Clinique and H&M. She’s also been a regular feature on the Forbes list of top-earning models.

She first reached a global platform in 2006, starring in the music video for Number One, an early hit for a seemingly pre pubescent Pharrell Williams and Kanye West. Fortunately for Kerr, the video didn’t suffer the same fate as Pharrell’s rapey 2013 hit Blurred Lines.

A year after Number One, Kerr started dating – and later married – British actor Orlando Bloom. On one occasion in 2009, the couple had their home broken into by a horny bunch of robbers known as the Bling Ring, who were allegedly on the hunt for Kerr’s Victoria’s Secret lingerie.

Kerr made global headlines again when bank worker David Kiely appeared to be viewing explicit photos of her on his computer while in the background of a live television interview on Australian television’s Channel 7.

Kerrplunk

Kerr saw the funny side, and backed a campaign for Kiely to keep his job. He did.

Speaking to Australian TV show Today about dating, she also suggested what men need to do to take her out is more simple than you might think.

“Planning. And a good heart I guess,” Kerr explained.

But after making ex-husband Bloom wait six months for his first kiss, it’s best not go in all guns blazing.

“Be patient,” Kerr continued. “It’s important to get to know someone and connect. That was instilled into me from a young age.”

Unfortunately for any prospective suitors, Kerr is now reportedly dating billionaire Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel.

At least you can still enjoy the LOVE Advent video. Just make sure nobody is being interviewed for national television behind you.

do you kerr?

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and Rita Ora copying Britney Spears’ iconic Rolling Stone cover is certainly flattering.

Rita donned a black bra and writhed around on the floor to capture the images while promoting her range with Italian Lingerie company Tezenis. 

The original Rolling Stones cover featured a 17-year-old Spears on the phone, while cuddling a telly tubby.

It’s Rita, b**ch

But for her shoot for Grazia Italia, Rita dumped Tinky Winky and the silk sheets, and opted to spend the shoot rolling around on the floor instead.

Meanwhile, there’s still no sign of Rita’s long-awaited second album, which she has long been putting the finishing touches to.

The album is now expected to be released in 2016, and given the fact that she has been working with Prince on it, big things are expected.  

The X Factor judge had been working with Calvin Harris on the record before they hid the skids, so it’s little wonder it has taken longer than anticipated. Rita recently revealed that when she first split with Harris, she just wanted to “crawl into bed and die.” 

Body on me

The break up meant she scrapped everything she and Harris had been working on, and went back to the drawing board.

“I kind of saw the light at the end of the tunnel and I just wanted to change the vibe of the whole album,” she told Wonderland.

“It was initially a really lovey-dovey album because that’s where I was, but then I obviously didn’t feel like that.

“I was like, ‘Okay, I need to get back in the studio and write some ‘thank God my friends are great’ kind of music.’” 

Ora will complete her X Factor duties this weekend as she attends the show final with Cheryl Cole, Simon Cowell and Nick Grimshaw.

rita does a britney

When Madison Young began starring in porn films aged 21, she already had her eye on getting behind the camera.

Young majored in theatre at college in Chicago. Far from the stereotypical image of the exploited porn actress, Young insists pornography was just another way to express herself.

“It provided me a safe container to explore and study human sexuality,” says Young from her home in LA. “Meanwhile, I experienced life-changing sexual encounters – and got rich. It’s intriguing material for work as an artist.”

Young directed her first film Bondage Boob Tube in 2005 and says: “I haven’t put the camera down since.”

“Experience allows me to look out for the physical and emotional needs of my performers”

Specialising in bondage and S&M movies, Young, 34, reckons all porn directors should take their turn performing films first.

“I’ve performed in hundreds of scenes, and that’s given me a great insight into what I value on set,” she says. “That experience allows me to look out for the physical and emotional needs of my performers, and they feel empowered by the environment I create with the film crew.”

Having directed 41 films, Young is a veteran of the industry. She hosted her first erotic film school this year – a three-day seminar in San Francisco teaching budding directors how to make ethical porn, where the needs of the performers come first.

Ropey

“More women consume porn than ever,” Young adds. “That’s huge. More women, feminists and gay and transgender people are directing what turns them on. It’s awe-inspiring to see such momentum in feminist pornography.”

The way people consume porn has changed massively during Young’s 13 years in the industry, but she insists it has lead to greater diversity. She says the days of the bored, fat white dude behind the camera are over.

“There’s so much diversity now in directors,” says Young. “That’s partly down to technology. I shot an award-winning scene with French performer Judy Minx and her friend Emily on my iPhone last year.”

“I did a film called Kinkinapolis where I was transformed into an anally-powered motorised racing car”

As well as writing her upcoming manual The DIY Porn Handbook, Young hopes to work in the mainstream film industry.

She’s finished writing a screenplay based on her autobiography, Daddy, and says: “I’m excited to bring the conversation around sexuality and feminism into the mainstream film world.”

Her idea of mainstream might be different to Hollywood’s though.

“I did a film called Kinkinapolis where I was transformed into an anally-powered motorised racing car,” she laughs.

“Basically, I was strapped into a fucking machine on wheels. As the dildo pumped in and out of my anus, the machine propelled forward around the racetrack. The whole scenario was hilarious.”

My philosophical guide to making visionary porn movies by Madison Young

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Dream big

“Close your eyes and dream your film. What do you see? What is it that inspires you? Give yourself some time to really envision your film.”

2

Navel-gaze

“Ask yourself what is your motivation to create a porn film? What do you hold close to your heart that you’d like to see presented in a film?”

3

Build your team

“Finding the right team members is essential. Use social media to reach out to other indie film-makers and performers.”

4

Negotiate

“In any relationship, communication and negotiation play a key role. That includes the unfolding of someone’s sexual self on camera.”

director madison young’s guide to visionary porn films

The woman tasked with posing as the final nude centrefold for Playboy has been revealed as Kristy Garett.

After 62 years of monthly nudity, 26-year-old Garett from Tbilisi in Georgia will do the honours. The blonde has brains as well as braun – she can speak six languages. Doubtless this is the sole reason she’s been picked.

Garett will be the 749th woman to get naked, appearing in Playboy’s February 2016 edition. For Garett, posing for Playboy epitomises the American dream…

“Playboy has a classic American story, and I want to be a part of it,” she said. “The lifestyle here, where you’re free to express yourself, is my type of life. I am proud of the woman I am and have always dreamed of being talked about because of that.”

Erm, yes, because that’s what people will be talking about…

Bottoms up

She continued: “I’m so happy.  It’s such a big deal. It’s so iconic — being the last nude Playmate makes me cry and feel happy inside.”

Playboy announced in October that it’s ceasing publishing nude images of women within the magazine’s pages, as the internet had taken away the need for them. (Page 3 take note.)

Playboy will still feature pictures of models in ‘provocative poses’, but with higher quality paper. Not sure if that means it’ll be wipe-free.

And the mag’s editorial director insists the decision was made in order to return to its original ethos.

“We’re kind-of going back to the classic, suggestive and less-explicit photography,” said Jason Buhrmester. “We’re getting back to arts, literature and politics.”

Casual

The announcement of Garett as the final nude centerfold comes shortly after Pamela Anderson revealed she’ll appear on the same issue’s final nude cover. The former Baywatch star will be interviewed by James Franco for the piece.

Anderson told last week how Playboy boss Hugh Heffner contacted her through his lawyer and told her she was his first choice. (He probably says that to all his Playboy Bunnies.) Anderson explained: “I got a call from Hugh’s attorney who said: ‘We don’t want anybody else. There’s nobody else, could you do the last cover of Playboy?’”

Anderson added she had to ask permission from her two teenage sons before agreeing to pose nude one last time. Film director Ron Howard will be interviewed in the same issue too, which is what we’ll buying it for, obviously.

Sex sells

this model is playboy’s final centrefold

Instagram has strict rules when it comes to nudity, but one intrepid yoga practitioner has found a way around it.

New internet sensation Nude Yoga Girl has amassed over 75,000 followers of her poses in just over a month.

The 25-year-old model, who has chosen to remain anonymous, uses shading and clever techniques to ensure certain parts of her anatomy are covered. The results are phenomenal.

Instagram have so far removed three of her images due to the presence of nipples, but the rest have remained on her page.

“I wanted to make the photos look very simple and minimalistic,” says Nude Yoga Girl. “I thought black and white would work the best for this.

“It’s also easier to hide the intimate parts of your body with shadows. In real life we see everything in colour. By doing black-and-white photos, the nudity doesn’t come across so aggressively but in a more artistic way.”

Her naked poses are captured in some truly gorgeous photography, and NYG is keen to keep everything as minimalist as possible.

“I wanted to take off everything unnecessary from the pictures on my account,” says NYG, who uses a timer to take her self-portraits.

“Nudity in social media is a taboo, but the nakedness and rawness of my photos reflect what I want to tell people.”

Nude Yoga Girl’s mantra reads: “You are beautiful exactly the way you are.”

Surely, even the most prudish of Instagram monitors can’t argue with that? Judge for yourself as Loaded presents five typically artistic images from Nude Yoga Girl’s account. Try not to put your back out when you try ’em out at home.

1 Looks relatively easy…

This looks easy…

Hardly explicit

2

Bending over backwards for freedom of expression

Put your back into it

3

Put your back into it

Namaste

4

Simple beauty

And stretch

5

Home time

And relax

how one yoga lover is challenging instagram’s nudity policy

Hadid, Moss, Kardashian: together at last!

Except it’s Bella Hadid, Lottie Moss and Kylie Jenner (OK, not officially a Kardashian) who star in a new photoshoot for Vogue.

The shoot is the best example of the next generation from supermodel dynasties marking their mark at the same time.

Bella Hadid is also today’s star in Love Advent’s festive countdown, with previous models behind their 24 doors having included Rita Ora, Stella Maxwell and Emily Ratajkowski.

Unlike her big sister Gigi’s conventional video, Bella’s is utterly nuts. Bella strips to her undies, before suddenly reappearing as a bunnygirl, Wonderwoman and flying a cartoon plane. It’s as if Danny Bear and Clem Fandango from Toast Of London’s voiceover studio had been given a load of cash and told to advertise lingerie.

Kate II

Lottie, 17, is still studying for her A-Levels but has said she intends to follow Kate down the catwalk and move to London once she’s finished her studies in Sussex. That contrasts with Bella, who has an alternative career as a showjumper.

Hadid is a serious contender to make the USA’s equestrian team for next year’s Olympics in Brazil. Make up your own filly jokes, thanks. And don’t think about any riding or jumping gags. If that doesn’t work out, at least she’s already modelled for everyone from Topshop to Tom Ford.

Doubtless, their younger brother Anwar will be modelling soon enough, while their pet budgie will be on the cover of RSPCB News before you know it. And if they ever decide to embark on a singing career, the Hadids’ stepfather David Foster is perfectly placed to oversee it: he produced hits for Madonna, Whitney Houston, J-Lo and, er, Westlife.

As for Kylie Jenner? Well, if you’ve read this far, you surely know all about her already…

(younger) sisters are doing it for themselves

There’s no end to the ladies emerging from the windows of the LOVE Advent calendar.

Yesterday Bella Hadid hit the internet in an utterly bizarre shoot which saw her dressed as Wonder Woman, a bunny and in nothing but her undies.

Today it’s the turn of Abbey Clancy.

Famous for being one of Britain’s top clotheshorses after winning Britain’s Next Top Model in 2006, and being a fully signed up WAG – she’s been married to Peter Crouch since 2011 – Clancy is set to hit our television screens again this Christmas when she performs in Strictly Come Dancing: Champion Of Champions, having won the show in 2013.

Why you’d want to watch two hours of people doing something that frankly isn’t that interesting when professionals do is a difficult concept to grasp.

You’d be better off getting your Christmas dose of Clancy as part of the LOVE Advent campaign, which she has been a regular feature in since its 2011 launch.

Strictly shit

Last year saw Clancy awkwardly washing a classic Jaguar in a hilariously (not really) classic carwash wet t-shirt montage and 2013 saw ‘Abbey Clancy: In Calvin Klein’. 

This time round Clancy has, in short, taken her pants off. All under the creative direction of Sam Faulkner though. So there’s arty lights and stuff too.

Peter Crouch revealed to Loaded last year that he’d love to follow in Clancy’s footsteps by giving Strictly a go, and his infamous robot moves suggest he’d probably be a lot more entertaining to watch attempt a jive than Daniel O’Donnell or Anne Widdicombe.

At least if you do have to suffer Strictly Come Dancing’s Champion Of Champions this Christmas, you can sit safe in the fact that Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman are probably more competent at fronting a benign television show than Olly ‘Which Way Is The Autocue?’ Murs and Caroline ‘Cackle In The Corner’ Flack.

abbey clancy and the gift that keeps on giving – watch

Scotland is set to be the first country in Britain to decriminalise prostitution – if a new proposal is passed.

Independent Scottish MSP Jean Urquhart has tabled a motion saying kerb-crawling and soliciting should be legal.

Urquhart reckons the move would improve safety for sex workers, and may even help to get rid of pimps. Sex workers agree, and say the move should be introduced throughout Britain.

“Criminals see sex workers as sitting ducks with lots of cash”

As it stands, the laws around prostitution are a grey area. A 50 shades of grey area, in fact.

It will surprise many people to learn that prostitution itself is actually legal. But most of what we associate with the world’s oldest profession is against the law.

So it’s not illegal to sell sex, but pimps, brothels and kerb-crawling are. Prostitutes can sell their bodies, they just can’t advertise their services in public. Unless they advertise online, which is perfectly legal.

These various loopholes would be closed under Urquhart’s bill, which has been passed on to the Scottish Parliament office which examines proposals. They’re set to rule in February as to whether the bill should be voted on in the Scottish Parliament.

Glasgow sex worker Laura Lee, who has been a prostitute for 20 years, said the bill is a great idea. She told Loaded: “The only people who benefit from the current laws are criminals and the police. Criminals see us as sitting ducks with lots of cash, while the police use sex work to bump up arrest figures by raiding massage parlours.”

Take the shackles off

Urquhart said that buying sex is “inevitable”, so it should be handled as safely as possible. She states: “You’ll never stop sex being sold for money. So let’s manage it better, and improve the health and welfare of sex workers.”

Currently, while sex workers are allowed to sell their bodies, they aren’t allowed to live together: it’s illegal for two prostitutes to be flatmates. Urquhart’s bill would allow up to four sex workers to ply their trade from the same home.

Lee, the head of Irish sex work organisation SWAI, said: “Sex work is the only occupation which compels women to work on their own. It’s abhorrent, because it makes women so vulnerable.

“You wouldn’t ask an emergency worker to do a shift on her own on Friday night, so don’t ask me.”

After asking for the public’s thoughts, Urquhart has suggested that certain areas be designated as “safe zones” for prostitutes. It’s led to fears these would become sleazy no-go areas, but Lee says: “Protected zones would send a message to would-be attackers: ‘Don’t mess with women here.’”

Urquhart’s proposal has the backing of Scotland’s Green and Lib Dem parties, and her spokesman told Loaded: “There are MSPs in Labour and the SNP who support Jean’s proposal too, though there also ranks in those parties who oppose it.”

Regardless of whether the idea becomes law, Urquhart says: “It’s important to raise the debate.”
Or, as Laura Lee puts it: “It’s a proposal that should be passed in Scotland. And then the rest of the UK.”

sex sells (especially in scotland)

Some families position themselves in front of the tree wearing Christmas hats and taking a selfie for their annual Christmas portrait.

Not Elizabeth Hurley though.

Liz, who turned fifty this year, has sent out her yearly Christmas greeting wearing little more than an extreme tan while standing against a background of snow and a pack of understandably leery wolves.

Hurley, who sot to fame during her romance with Hugh Grant in the 1990s, has just posted the image on her Instagram account, and announced that she’s heading off on a Winter break, writing: “Bye bye London til 2016. Heading West to family, friends, fire and fun. Yippee.”

This isn’t the first time she has posed in next to nothing for fans on her social media pages. The Royals actress frequently uploads sensational images from the past and not-so-distant past to keep her legions of followers happy.

Hurley recently featured in our Classic section with a shoot and interview from 1994 when she was twenty-seven years old and living in Los Angeles.

The actress revealed that she had aspirations to write a screenplay and to act alongside Robert DeNiro. She also told that she was open to filming risqué stuff, if the script was right.

“I like sex in films”, she said at the time.

“In LA they all think I have a very European attitude towards nudity but it’s never something that’s crossed my mind. Taking my top off in Aria (a highly acclaimed arthouse film) was intrinsic to the story. I’d never do anything with sleazebags where I felt I was being manipulated. The minute I feel something going on which I don’t like, I’m the first one flying out the door.”

Here, we have picked out five of her best from Instagram.

1 

Off for a swim…

2

Bedazzled

3

Itsy bitsy

4

Throwback Friday

5

Lounging around

a christmas greeting from liz

Ryan McGinley has long been taking pictures of people half lost in a rapture, romping about in caves or entranced under some kind of spell. Either coming down or heading up, his wan and clothing-free subjects appear to drift through their encounters.

That most of McGinley’s subjects are his friends shows how comfortable they are to be portrayed in the nip. These grafitti artists, models, assorted freaks, sex workers and skateboarders are of a generation happy in front of the camera, and McGinley makes them feel as much a part of the art as the rest of the image. He describes his pictures as “evidence of fun”.

His use of dreamy filters and natural light in his photography has helped inspire amateur Instagrammers to get their bits out and have them shot artily. He favours 35mm film and makes his photographs very much in the tradition of the work of Nan Goldin and Larry Clark for gritty reality. The first glimpse of the morning after. The post coital glare. The walk of shame.

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By the sea

Beach blanket disco

“When I can find someone androgynous, it’s the best because it’s like a two-in-one package,” says the New Yorker. “That really is interesting to me. I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.”

Naturally this has made McGinley very much in-demand with brands, having worked for Uniqlo, Marc Jacobs, Levis and MySpace (ask your parents). He also had a photo used as the cover of Sigur Ros’ album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly) in 2008. So it’s very likely you have seen his work subconsciously.

New York’s Museum Of Modern Art has exhibited McGinley, but doesn’t actually own any of his work. It’s snobbery that should have been long obliterated, as 38-year-old McGinley’s youth and willingness to engage with advertising and promotional opportunities seems at odds with a museum that showcases Andy Warhol.

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Fairytales of New York

If you go down to the woods today…

While a student in 2000, McGinley showcased his work in his first exhibition, mailing his catalogue to photographers and magazines he admired. The plan worked, with Index magazine commissioning him to take snaps of cult synthpop singer Momus in Berlin. From there on, McGinley started happening.

“I’m so bad technically,” he admits. “I never trained in photography. I studied graphic design, and I always ask them just to put the camera on automatic. Seriously.”

A raft of experience

The youngest of eight, by the age of 25 he’d become the youngest artist to have his work shown at New York’s Whitney Museum Of Art.

His works have appeared in the Guggenheim and exhibited worldwide. McGinley has also dabbled in film, mostly adverts for the likes of Pringle (featuring Tilda Swinton) and Mercedes Benz as well as videos for Sigur Ros. He also followed Morrissey on his 2004 tour, taking shots of his fans and the man himself, captured with flattering filters. 

Gone fishing

Many of McGinley’s recent projects have involved road trips with his subjects, travelling around the US and unearthing secluded areas, visiting farmlands and deserted spaces in order for inspiration.

But it’s these photos that typify his ability to capture sensuality at its rawest.

Way Far by Ryan McGinley is published by Rizzoli New York

Covered up

far gone and out: the naturist photography of ryan mcginley

Fresh from her recent appearance on the Victoria’s Secret runway, Selena Gomez has shared the latest music video from new album Revival.

Hands To Myself finds the ex-Disney star amping up her bad girl image to break into the mansion of model Christopher Mason.

Gomez poses seductively in black lingerie, twirls around in front of a mirror and writhes about on Mason’s bed as she awaits the return of the Thor-lookalike. The only problem? He has no idea she’s there and naturally calls the police.

“Sorry for snooping, Chris,” Selena quipped in her social media posts premiering the video.

Other video highlights include: Selena’s break to take a bath, the movie-within-a-music-video called Obsession, and a shock last minute twist to rival The Sixth Sense and Fight Club.

Hands To Myself is the third single to be lifted from Revival following on from Good For You and Same Old Love. Gomez has had an eventful 12 months, breaking up with long-time boyfriend Justin Bieber and diving headfirst back into music.

“The year wasn’t just me trying to transition in my career — it was my whole life. I had to reconfigure everything,” she told Refinery29.

“That was a little uncomfortable and very scary. I didn’t have anything to fall back on. At the same time, the public perception of me was unfair and very invasive. I was trying to figure out all my own stuff in my personal life while everybody had an opinion.”

Bedtime for Selena

Expect to see a lot more of Gomez in 2016. Her Revival tour kicks off on May 6 in Las Vegas before ticking off North America’s biggest cities right through to July.

Film-wise she’ll be appearing in Oscar-tipped The Big Short as herself, the James Franco-directed In Dubious Battle and the sequel to Zac Efron’s comedy hit Neighbours.

watch selena gomez in handcuffs for sultry new music video

As the final Playboy magazine featuring nude models rests on the shelves, it’s worth noting that former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson graced its cover on many occasions.

No other celebrity has graced the Playboy cover more than Anderson, who was first photographed for the magazine in 1989. In total, Anderson has appeared on the cover 14 times from her 15 photoshoots.

So it’s no wonder that the magazine’s owner Hugh Hefner immediately turned to the veteran hellraiser to grace its final cover to end its 62-year tradition of nude models. 

Here, Loaded takes a look at some of the best work Anderson has done which didn’t involve her running across a beach in slow-motion.

First time lucky

Anderson’s first cover appeared in October 1989, shortly after her move from Vancouver to LA to establish her modelling career. Playboy subsequently chose her as Playmate Of The Month in their February 1990 issue, in which she appeared as the centrefold. This cover image was shot before Anderson had breast surgery and set her off on her path to fame. (The surgery and her fame being entirely unconnected, of course.)

By 1994, Anderson was at the height of her fame, having played lifeguard CJ Parker on Baywatch since 1992. She also played Tool Time Girl in the successful US sitcom Home Improvements.

Fast forward to 1999 and Pammie had left her Baywatch days behind her to play Valerie Lyons in the frankly godawful VIP. Showing more humour than VIP, Anderson often poked fun at her tabloid image and, ten years since her first Playboy cover, she was looking as good as ever.

Anderson left little to the imagination for a 2007 cover whose dollar-sign undies was the definition of a money shot. This cover marks the middle of a few otherwise barren years for the actress, who went pretty silent, apart from a documentary on E! Network. Her sitcom Stacked, in which she played a reformed party animal, flopped and she was nearing the end of her longtime on-off relationship with Motley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee.

Saving the best for last, Pammie’s final nude shot for Playboy is out now. Away from looking decent at 49, Anderson has become a regular on reality TV, appearing on Dancing On Ice in the UK in 2013, as well as being a high-profile vegan campaigner for animal rights charity PETA and lobbying President Obama to legalise cannabis. She recently divorced film producer Rick Salomon and is due to appear in the drama The People Garden. And she has left Playboy readers with some mammar… memories to treasure.

pamela anderson’s greatest playboy covers

Victoria’s Secret has steadily become the superpower in fashion.

Sixteen of the 21 models on Forbes’ World’s Highest Paid Models list this year are either currently modelling their lingerie or have been one of their Angels in the past.

The brand is making models into millionaires and lingerie into front-page news. So what does it take to succeed in the most lucrative gig in fashion?

“The answer will surprise you,” says Ed Razek, chief marketing officer at Victoria’s Secret. “It’s how women respond to them.”

The rationale makes perfect sense; women do the majority of VS shopping. But it may shock the brand’s legions of adoring male fans.

“All of these women would be the best looking girl any guy had ever seen – guys are easy,” Razek laughs.

The annual Victoria’s Secret catwalk show that aired earlier this month is the most watched fashion event in the world. And it’s no surprise. As well as the copious amounts of lingerie, the Angels look like they’re having an absolute blast. It results in a procession of smiling faces that’s more fun than most brands dare to have on the catwalk. It’s more party than elitist runway show.

This year saw The Weeknd sing Can’t Feel My Face as well as stunning Disney graduate Selena Gomez perform to a global audience. Around 100 models are selected by Victoria’s Secret scouts from the year’s runway shows, who must then audition for the final role at the event.

A few have Angel contracts – the likes of mega-bucks Adriana Lima and Candice Swanepoel – and are signed up before the trials. But for the rest, it’s the last hurdle before making it onto the brand’s hallowed catwalk.

“All of these women would be the best looking girl any guy had ever seen – guys are easy”

So what are they looking for in order to turn a model into an Angel?

“We want women that are positive and happy and support each other,” Razek explained to Forbes.

Despite such a progressive approach to the selection process, becoming a successful Angel doesn’t come easy.

Looking at the brand’s rollcall makes it clear they support super-toned gym bunnies over high profile It Girls, and have turned a number of minor names into global megastars.

“There are rare athletes and rare models who have very long careers because they do the work, prepare and don’t take it for granted,” Razek concluded.

So how have five of the brand’s top earners achieved the holy grail of the fashion industry in 2015?

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Adriana Lima

Top of the class

The longest-running Angel in Victoria’s Secret history, having been contracted to the brand since 2000, 34-year-old Lima banked a whopping $9m this year and is at No 2 on the models’ rich list. Speaking to Forbes, Razek was clear as to why she enjoys continued success. “Adriana Lima has consistently been supportive of younger models,” he says. “She doesn’t treat them as a threat or competition, answering any questions they have.”

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Alessandra Ambrosio

On point

Ambrosio is one of the most recognisable faces of recent Victoria’s Secret fashion shows with a killer smile not usually present on the runway. Charting at No 8, she banked a whopping $5m this year. She also made her acting debut in steamy Brazilian soap opera Verdades Secretas (Secrets And Lies).

Speaking to Glamour, Ambrosio was clear that the key to her success is sharing. “Maybe today it’s my turn to wear the Fantasy Bra, but next year, it’s going to be someone else,” she explained. “We get inspired by each other. The Angels are my coworkers, they’re gorgeous, and everyone there has their own spotlight.”

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Candice Swanepoel

Poel vault

South African Swanepoel was discovered in a flea market in Durban but has rocketed up to No 8 on the rich list, matching Alessandra Ambrosio’s $5m pay cheque – almost twice what Swanepoel earned last year. Speaking to Vogue, the stunner – who also wowed playing Marilyn Monroe for Max Factor earlier this year – was clear to the reasons for her success.

“Boxing, laughing a lot, pilates, yoga – everything that involves core exercises and lots of resistance training,” she explained. “I have a trainer in New York who has been working with me for about eight years now. I also love yoga for the spiritual and physical sides. It’s hard to meditate in New York City, which is why I like to travel to remote places where I am surrounded by nature.” Not gorging on pies, then.

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Karlie Kloss

Kloss act

Despite the fact Kloss is no longer an Angel, trading in her wings earlier this year, a sizable chunk of her $5m haul is still largely thanks to the work she did with the brand. She made her debut for Victoria’s Secret in 2011, before famously cutting her hair into a bob before the show in 2012. It clearly worked, as the cut became known as ‘the Karlie’.

Kloss has become known as ‘The nice one’ in the fashion industry, and it’s a tag many credit to her great success aged only 23. “It doesn’t matter if you’re a superstar or not,” she says. “I think that the people who don’t forget that and let it change them are the ones who have long-term success.”

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Kendall Jenner

New Jenneration

20-year-old Jenner made her Victoria’s Secret debut at the 20th anniversary of the brand’s fashion show this year. Rocketing up the rich list by earning a cool $4m, the glorious Jenner looks set for an illustrious modelling career. Fashion powerhouse Vogue agree, claiming earlier this month that although the phrase supermodel is overused, she is truly worthy of the title.

Speaking about how close the Angels are backstage at this year’s show, Jenner said: “It’s really exciting and it makes it more comfortable. Sharing this moment with your best friends is awesome.”

what does it take to become a victoria’s secret angel?

In the biggest nuddy news of 2015 alongside Justin Bieber flashing his arse on a boat, Playboy announced in October that they’re to stop publishing fully naked shoots.

With a history that has taken sex in the States from underground to omnipresent, editor Hugh Hefner has enjoyed a long tenure at the helm, with the magazine’s best-selling issue shifting over seven million copies in November 1972.

But with an immeasurable amount of porn just one click away on the internet nowadays Playboy has lost its controversial edge, and subsequently decided to redefine the brand. The magazine will still reportedly feature women in provocative poses, but no longer fully nude, instead focusing on content a little less NSFW.

As we prepare to kiss goodbye to the Playboy nude shoot, a cornerstone of American culture, we run down the most iconic covers in the magazine’s rich history, as chosen by Playboy.

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Marilyn Monroe
December 1953

The first issue, featuring Marilyn Monroe on the cover, was created by Hugh Hefner on the kitchen table of his South Side Chicago apartment – financed with $600 of Hefner’s money and less than $8,000 of capital.

The magazine appeared on newsstands in December 1953 and the cover was produced undated, just in case there wasn’t a second issue. It sold more than 51,000 copies.

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Janet Pilgrim
July 1955

This wasn’t the first bikini on a Playboy cover, but it was the first time the swimsuit was modeled in such a prominent fashion. (The first bikini cover was July 1954, but the swimsuit was washed ashore, so the cover model wasn’t wearing it).

The model on the beach towel is Janet Pilgrim, who began work at in the magazine’s offices before being asked to appear as the July 1955 issue’s Playmate Of The Month.

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Donna Michelle
May 1964

Hugh Hefner and his artistic staff never lost focus of the two best cover elements: the model and the Rabbit Head logo. On the May 1964 cover Playmate Of The Year Donna Michelle, wearing a white leotard, became the brand.

“I had this idea of a girl posing in the shape of the Rabbit, but I thought no model would be able to do it,” said Art Paul, Playboy’s first art director. “I asked Donna and there was no problem. She got into that position with great ease and could still smile.”

It marked the first time the Playmate Of The Year had been featured so prominently on the cover.

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Not Ursula Andress
June 1965

Some of Playboy’s simplest covers appeared in the 1960s. This cover featured just a redhead in a head-wrap, staring intently above her sunglasses. Cutting off at the nape of her neck, the cover resembles more of a sculptured bust than a traditional men’s magazine cover.

Playboy definitely took a risk with this: As written on the left lens, there’s a 12-page pictorial of Ursula Andress inside. Considering her popularity at the time, it would have been a much safer move to give her the cover.

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Barbi Benton
July 1969

This issue’s cover model was Barbi Benton, Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend for eight years. She would appear on three more covers in the upcoming two decades: March 1970, May 1972 and December 1985. However, she was never named a Playmate Of The Month. So much for favouritism.

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Darine Stern
October 1971

By placing its first African-American model on the cover — the radiant Darine Stern — Playboy was helping shift the standards of mainstream beauty in the nation’s culture. Although the magazine had already featured two black Playmates by this time – March 1965’s Jennifer Jackson and October 1969’s Jean Bell — nude African-American models were mainly seen in publications produced for and by the black communities.

Stern was such a groundbreaking image that it was chosen by the American Society Of Magazine Editors in 2005 as one of the 40 most important magazine covers of the previous 40 years.

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Pamela Anderson
October 1989

Pamela Anderson holds the record for the most Playboy covers — a total of 13. This issue marked her first cover appearance. She has since been featured on the following covers: February 1991; July 1992; August 1993; November 1994; January 1996; September 1997; June 1998; February 1999; July 2001; May 2004; January 2007; and January 2011.

Pammie was also Playboy’s Playmate Of The Month in February 1990. Get collecting the set now, Baywatch fans.

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Anna Nicole Smith
June 1993

Anna Nicole Smith first appeared on Playboy’s March 1992 cover. Within months, she was named Miss May 1992 and Guess jeans’ spokesmodel (yes, that is a word). Smith went on to be named Playboy’s 1993 Playmate Of The Year (featured on this cover), and appeared on three more Playboy covers. In 1994, Smith became infamous for her marriage to 80-something billionaire J Howard Marshall. It was never going to last, and Marshall died the following year. The doomed Smith died of a drug overdose in 2007, a year after her son Daniel died. Makes that Playboy cover a little less enticing, really.

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Jenny McCarthy
January 2005

Jenny McCarthy has appeared on a total of six Playboy covers, including this January 2005 issue where she wore the famous Bunny Costume. She was first named Playboy’s October 1993 Playmate Of The Month and went on to become the magazine’s 1994 Playmate Of The Year.

Her last appearance was in August 2012, since when she has gone on to host successful chat show The View on the ABC network in the US.

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Seth Rogen
April 2009

In Playboy’s 60-year history the magazine has only featured a male on the cover 10 times: Peter Sellers (April 1964); Burt Reynolds (October 1979); Steve Martin (January 1980); Donald Trump (March 1990); Dan Aykroyd (August 1993); Jerry Seinfeld (October 1993); Leslie Nielsen (February 1996); Gene Simmons (March 1999); Seth Rogen (April 2009); and Bruno Mars (April 2012). None of them have been noticeably naked.

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Lips
November 2013

Playboy has recently returned to running the more art-inspired, concept covers that the magazine was known for in the 1950s-70s. Photographed by Tony Kelly and art directed by Mac Lewis, this ‘Lips’ cover was recently awarded Cover Of The Day by the Society Of Professional Designers.

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Kate Moss
January/February 2014

Playboy magazine celebrated its 60th anniversary with this issue, which featured a stunning 40-year-old Kate Moss in an unprecedented 18-page pictorial and cover appearance photographed by Mert & Marcus.

Inside Moss was interviewed by Tom Jones, who asked who would be on her ultimate guest-list at a party. “Well, I would like to have dinner with naughty people who have a story to tell — like you!” Moss answered, before listing Jack Nicholson, David Bailey, Stevie Nicks, Catherine Deneuve, Joan Collins, husband Jamie Hince and “obviously” Hugh Hefner. The big creep.

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Pamela Anderson (again)
January/February 2016

Pamela Anderson was featured on the cover and in a 12-page pictorial inside the magazine’s last nude issue. Hugh Hefner said 49-year-old Anderson was the obvious choice for the nude farewell, which was accompanied by an interview with acting eccentric and regular Playboy contributor James Franco.

Anderson’s historic shoot was photographed at the Playboy Mansion by Ellen von Unwerth. Doubtless future non-nude covers will be just as celebrated.

the 13 most iconic playboy covers of all time

Joanna Angel is a self-professed punk porn princess.

As well as directing over 100 porn movies and starring in 150, she has won 15 AVN Awards (the Porn Oscars) in her decade making adult films – including one for ‘most outrageous sex scene’. Angel almost single-handedly invent alt-porn. Don’t know what alt-porn is? Run along and find out. Thank us later.

In January, Angel hosts the AVN Awards alongside Annika Albrite, who won the best actress gong at last year’s awards.

The punk porn princess also started porn studio Burning Angel with her roommate at college ten years ago. After a decade of success, the studio runs popular franchises including the delightfully-titled Girls Girls Girls and Rock And Roll In My Butthole. It has also been nominated for a whopping 24 gongs at this year’s AVNs.

Angel is a centrefold

Through Burning Angel she has won the AVN comedy award three times.

“I guess comedy is my thing. And that’s great as I love writing it,” Angel explains. “It’s a great feeling when I can sit back and watch one of my movies with people and everybody laughs.”

As working through 24 movies would be an exhausting task, Angel has picked out her top five Burning Angel flicks of 2015 for Loaded to save us time.

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Making The Band

“Making The Band is one of the best movies we’ve made this year. It’s the one where my group scene is nominated in the AVN Awards. So there’s a really fun group sex scene in there and the movie is just very funny. I felt like the cast did a really good job. The sex is hot and the plot is funny. It’s a perfect mix of everything.”

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“This is a really funny movie. All the girls in it have really big boobs and they kill people with boob lazers. The special effects and the make-up are pretty unique too. The production value is a little higher than I usually do and obviously the sex is good too. So I like it all round.”

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Rock And Roll In My Butthole Number 5

“Rock And Roll In My Butthole is a really popular series that we’ve been doing for a long time. Everybody loves anal sex, and in this particular movie every scene is really strong, powerful and they’re all really different. So I was really pleased with the end product.”

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Ronda ArouseMe

“It’s a porn parody of Ronda Rousey and was probably the most popular film we’ve made this year. It got all over the media and we even got a comment from Ronda herself on how she was entertained by the fact the film exists. It was really cool to make a porn movie and have it transcend that far. That was really exciting.”

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It’s My First Time Volume 3

“This franchise is always girls doing their first scenes and they’re always really popular. I shoot a lot of new girls and it’s always a special experience seeing a brand new girl on her first day on set and documenting what her feelings are. The variety of people we get on these movies is amazing too. Different girls coming from different cities, all with different looks and their own reasons as why they decided to do a porn. The movies don’t have a plot, I just interview the girls and try to document what it’s like for a girl doing her first porn scene. But they’re all really special to me and I think people really appreciate them.”

porn oscar host joanna angel’s top five adult movies of 2015

South American surf brand Reef have revealed the stars of their 2016 calendar. Well, their bums at least.

This year’s edition was headed up by snapper Kate Bellm and was captured along the lagoons and woodlands of the Pacific Mexican coast.

On the off chance that you’re still reading the words, you might want to know that the Reef ladies rarely put names to their, erm, faces and prefer to remain anonymous.

According to Reef, the photographer perfectly captured the brand’s mischievous side.

Reef say: “Kate took an edgy perspective, but retained the mystery of Miss Reef. The final result was 12 months’ worth of youth culture-driven pop art of Miss Reef in cerulean lagoons and lush tropical woodlands of the Pacific Mexican coast, all with Miss Reef falling into Bellm’s brand of mischief and adventure.” In other words: Nice ass.

The 2016 calendar was inspired by Miss Reef’s heritage combined with 60s and 70s fashion photography and youth culture.

Previous years have seen Miss Reef’s Latin American heritage captured in Brazil, Panama, Puerto Rico and Ecuador.

The best-selling 2015 calendar which marked the brand’s 25th anniversary was shot on location near the tip of the Baja Peninsula. Taking a fashion-forward direction, the calendar aimed to highlight the natural beauty that surrounds the Sea of Cortez and move back to the roots of the Reef brand. 

While the faces of the models involved in the campaign are never revealed, they are supposed to be a symbol of how the brothers who founded the chain view the surfing lifestyle. Which seemingly is just backsides without faces as opposed to surf boards or flipflops, but each to their own.

The Reef brand was founded in 1990 by Argentine brothers Fernando and Santiago Aguerre. The Miss Reef Calendar 2016 is available now through Reef’s website at £10.

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Bottom’s up

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Careful

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Great barrier reef

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Peace out

good reef: 2016’s hottest beach bums calendar