 In fact, the beginning of the modern men's glossy magazine (or girlie magazine) can be traced to the 1953 purchase by Hugh Hefner of a photograph of Marilyn Monroe to use as the centerfold of his new magazine "Playboy".Soon, this type of magazine was the primary medium in which pornography was consumed.In postwar Britain digest magazines such as "Beautiful Britons", "Spick" and "Span", with their interest in nylons and underwear
and the racier "Kamera" published by Harrison Marks were incredibly popular.