49 Year Old Ex Playboy Bunny Serial Sexual Conquests

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Jackie MolloyThe New York Times Two things happened last Wednesday: a seasoned television executive was brought low by a growing scandal over allegations of sexual misconduct at work, and the Playboy Club reopened its doors in New York.

At the opening-night party, women in cocktail dresses and men in loafers, no socks, bumped and shimmied around an oval bar while the bunnies comely waitresses in black corsets, rabbit ears, and cottontails offered plates of sushi and flutes of Champagne.

In a VIP area, a group of well-gelled men were manspreading, drinking, and admiring passing bunnies while ignoring, in that great Playboy tradition, the fine collection of readings on the bookshelves around them: Lincoln, by Gore Vidal, The Sensuous Man, by M., Rabbit, Run, by John Updike.

Advertisement While small fish nibbled at a Playboy bunny logo in a glowing saltwater tank, Playboy Chief Executive Officer Ben Kohn found a quiet hallway and explained that, actually, Playboy is in the midst of a very good year.

Profits are up 25 percent, and Playboy sees lots of opportunities to expand, particularly in the US.

Five years ago, Playboy bailed on its licensing business in the domestic market, investing instead in places where the Playboy brand still conveyed an air of American exceptionalism.

There are five Playboy clubs, cafes, and beer gardens in Southeast Asia and one in London.

The opening of a New York beachhead gives Playboy Enterprises Inc.

In a partnership with Merchants Hospitality, the developer of various high-end New York restaurants and bars, the club will be partly open to the general public, with large sections blocked off for members.

Annual dues run from 5,000 to 100,000, for which members can frolic freely amid the bunnies and revel in the aura of the Playboy brand.

Hugh Hefner, the companys founder and randy embodiment of Playboys revolving-bed ethos, died last year at 91.

Over the years, Hefner made Playboy into a lucrative empire, in large part by marrying his libertine sexual beliefs to an upwardly mobile lifestyle: A buxom blonde on each arm became a symbol of success, along with a Mercury Cougar in the driveway and a bottle of Glenfiddich on the bar.

Advertisement Recently, however, insatiable bed-hopping has lost its glamour.

49 Year Old Ex Playboy Bunny Serial Sexual Conquests

These days, the news is strewn with stories about once-revered men who for years allegedly abused their positions of workplace power in pursuit of serial sexual conquests in so doing, ultimately wrecking their reputations and careers.

That one of the scandals involves the president of the United States allegedly covering up an extramarital affair with a former Playboy Playmate is a further turn of the screw for Playboys brand managers.

An aura of pin-striped male entitlement is not what theyre after.

Playboy is perhaps the most extreme example of the conundrum facing masculine brands in the MeToo era.

Across the retail landscape, marketers have been tamping down the testosterone.

British whisky brand Johnnie Walker introduced the Jane Walker Edition, a version of the Black Label blend, complete with a female version of its iconic male logo.

Toyota, Nissan, and Alfa Romeo announced that they would replace scantily clad women with actual product specialists at car shows.

Axe Body Spray declared itself an advocate for gender sensitivity.

For a while, it looked as if Playboy, too, might turn cottontail and head for safer ground.