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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.
[edit] Cyber Club features
- Cyber Girls- The models appearing in the featured pictorials have been called Playboy Cyber Girls since Stephanie Heinrich 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 Year.
- Playmate Exclusives - Usually before the new print edition of Playboy 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.
- 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 zookeeper, 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 assosciation 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 and may have been replaced by something called the Dirty Dozen. (The Daily Double 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 Australia or Women of Starbucks), Supermodels,In the News, Athletes, Celebrity Photographers (celebrity photographer photographs of Playmates or Playboy Special Edition models).
- SuicideGirls - 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.
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