''Club International'' is a British softcore pornographic magazine published by

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that features pictures of nude women. It is a sister magazine of American magazine ''

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History and profile

''Club International'' was founded in 1972 and is published every four weeks, making thirteen issues per year. Each edition consists of one hundred printed pages and is staple-bound, with the exception of the slightly larger "special edition", published at the start of each new volume, which has some 120 pages and flat glued binding. ''Club International'' is published by

, which publishes eight of the UK's ten top adult magazines. Along with ''

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'' magazine, ''Club International'' is considered one of Raymond's most upmarket top shelf productions, with the photo spreads generally featuring more glamorous photosets shot by experienced photographers.

Content

Each edition of ''Club International'' features ten photosets, with the exception of the slightly larger "special edition" which features between twelve and thirteen sets. The photosets are usually single-model shoots but there are also

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scenes. The shoots are generally softcore, and as such do not feature any sort of penetration or oral-genital contact. However some photoshoots feature the occasional "pink" shot, where a model exposes her vaginal lips. During the early to mid-1980s, a regular feature was "Club Event", a picture sequence involving a group of models (usually about half a dozen) performing a form of striptease around a central theme such as a Christmas party, or whilst wearing (and removing) various types of uniforms.

Models

The magazine once offered the British TV newsreader

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a fee of £75,000 to appear naked in its pages, but she declined. It has, however, featured a number of well-known models and

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, such as Lexi Lowe,

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, Monica Sweet, Zsanett Égerházi, Sandra Shine, Peaches,

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, Stephanie Swift, and popular Hungarian model Sophie Moone (often credited as 'Stella'). Also among the women featured is the "Reader's Girlfriend", presented as an amateur model who is the girlfriend of a ''Club International'' reader.

Features

Long-running features in ''Club International'' include its regular readers' letters page, "Talkin' Blue", where 'readers' share tales of their sexual experiences, and "Peaches", a feature that covers anal sex (although the writing is far more explicit than the images that accompany the feature). As with a number of similar

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, there are the regular automotive features, editorials, video and book reviews, as well as a jokes page. Starting in 2008, a free

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has been included with every issue.

Online edition

''Club International'' is also sold in digital format. Initially this was via the Paul Raymond digital newsstand from 2013 until that website closed. Subsequently it has been available digitally from the publisher's main website. Also, you can read or download issues o
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References

External links

Official website of ''Club International'' publishers Paul Raymond PublicationsOfficial digital newsstand of Paul Raymond Publications
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