Imagery of nude celebrities

On the internet, the difficulty of identifying offenders and applying court sanction makes circulation of such photographs much less risky.

[9][10] The commercialization, promotion, and organized supply of nude celebrity images can be traced to another men's magazine, High Society, and the efforts of its first female Editor, Gloria Leonard.

Over its 25-year run, Margot Kidder, Ann-Margret and Barbra Streisand tried unsuccessfully to sue the magazine for publishing nude photos of them.

[12] Yet another magazine, Penthouse, earned notoriety for its publication of nude photographs of models who at the time were not celebrities, some of whom later attained fame.

Penthouse published nude photos in its September 1984 issue of a young adult film actress, Traci Lords (later found to be underage at the time),[13] and Vanessa Williams, then-Miss America; the ensuing scandal caused Williams to be stripped of her crown.