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Oui Jan 1980
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Oui January 1980

Features
Covergirl Kathy Lautner Photographed by Elyse Lewin
Handling Jealousy
A Sexy New Monthly Feature
Cheech & Chong
Introducing The California Girl

 


Oui Feb 1980
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Oui February 1980

Features
Covergirl Rowena Michelle Photographed by Phillip Dixon
How To Handle Waking Up At Her Place
Cabin Fever Survival Guide
Sexy Gifts For Your Lady
Loni Anderson: Small Talk With The Star Of WKRP In Cincinnati

 


Oui Mar 1980
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Oui March 1980

Features
Covergirl Photographed by Phillip Dixon (Not Nude)
The Who's {ete Townshend In A Surprise Interview!
Group Sex Survey: Are You Ready For Three-On-A-Bed?
Barter: How You Can Live Well Without Money
Lip Service: Do Good Kissers Make Better Lovers?

 


Oui Apr 1980
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Oui April 1980

Features
Covergirl Lalla Dean Photographed by Phillip Dixon
Where To Borrow Money In A Hurry
The Thrills & Dangers Of Dating Married Women
The Coming Threat Of Soccer
Small Talk With "Dallas" Nymphet Charlene Tilton

 


Oui May 1980
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Oui May 1980

Features
Covergirl & Centerfold Corinne Photographed by Jeff Dunas
Oui's Guide To Bar-Fight Etiquette
How To Handle Her Old Boyfriends
Small Talk With Rock-Pal Bebe Buell
An Indecent Conversation With George Carlin

 


Oui Jun 1980
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Oui June 1980

Features
Covergirl Jodie Graham Photographed by Phillip Dixon
Letting Her Down Easy: Classy Ways To Say Goodbye
The Oui Sex Survey: What Women Think About Oral Sex
Sobriety Test: How To Drink And Stay Sober
How To Survive Working For An S.O.B.

 


Oui Jul 1980
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Oui July 1980

Features
Covergirl Penny Gray Photographed by Brian Anderson
"Roadie" Heavy On-The-Set With Meat Loaf
Hot Swimsuits: The Latest In Pool Hustling
Tanya Tucker: Small Talk With The "TNT" Lady
The Fine Art Of Afterplay

 


Oui Aug 1980
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Oui August 1980

Features
Covergirl Greta Blackburn Photographed by Phillip Dixon
The World's Sexiest Legs
Small Talk With "Associate" Shelley Smith
Are Law Clinics Safe?
"The Blues Brothers" Exclusive! Loose On The Set With Aykroyd & Belushi

 


Oui Sep 1980
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Oui September 1980

Features
Covergirl Annik Van Rie Photographed by Jeff Dunas
Cheyco Leidmann: Germany's Premier Erotic Photographer
Are Older Women Sexier? by Clifford Irving
California Marijuana Report
Playing Hardball With Pirate Slugger Dave Parker

 


Oui Oct 1980
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8th Anniversary

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Oui October 1980

Features
Covergirl Care Felix Photographed by Brian Anderson
Grading College Sex Ed. Courses
A Wide-Eyed Look At Blind Dates
Chewing The Fat With Dom DeLuise

 


Oui Nov 1980
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Oui November 1980

Features
Covergirl & Centerfold Leslie Graves Photographed by Phillip Dixon
Best Of Brew: OUI Rates The Imports
Small Talk With Sultry Susan Saint James
The OUI Sex Survey: What Men Think About Oral Sex
A Feverish Interview with WKRP's Howard Hesseman

 


Oui Dec 1980
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Oui December 1980

Features
Covergirl Marjorie Andrade Photographed by Douglas Dubler
Small Talk With Beverly "Honky Tonk" D'Angelo
OUI Sex Survey: Are Frenchmen Better Lovers?
Dropping In On The LSD Revival
Weekend Laffs With The Cast Of "Fridays"

 

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Oui was a men's adult pornographic magazine published in the United States and featuring explicit nude photographs of models, with full page pin-ups, centerfolds, interviews and other articles, and cartoons. Oui ceased publication in 2007. ("Oui" is French for "yes".)

Oui was originally published in France under the name Lui by Daniel Filipacchi (first French issue November 1963), as a French equivalent of Playboy. In 1972, Playboy Enterprises purchased the rights for a U.S. edition, changing the name to Oui, and the first issue was published in October of that year. Jon Carroll, formerly assistant editor at Rolling Stone magazine and editor of Rags and later editor of The Village Voice, was selected as the first editor. Arthur Kretchmer, the editor of Playboy, however, had a role in ensuring that editorial choices would be in line with Hugh Hefner's vision.

The intention was to differentiate the audience in mass-market men's magazines, in an attempt to answer the challenge brought by Penthouse and Hustler, with its more explicit photography, and therefore compete on multiple fronts. At first Playboy considered a direct response by following Penthouse in a nudity escalation, but Playboy management was hesitant to alter the magazine's philosophy, based on a more 'mature' and 'sophisticated' audience (one-third of Playboy's readership at that time was estimated to be over 35). Instead, a separate publication, Oui, was introduced in order to pursue a younger readership, offering a combination of a "rambunctious editorial slant with uninhibited nudes pictured in the Penthouse mood."

In the late seventies, Oui published some interesting articles, including "Is this the man who ate Michael Rockefeller?" (April 1977) by Lorne Blair (lately famous for the Ring of Fire documentaries), beginning with a photograph of a grinning New Guinea native, told by the intrepid anthropologist/reporter who journeyed to New Guinea, interviewed people who had known Michael Rockefeller, then ventured into the jungle and talked to members of the tribe from whom Rockefeller had bought native art artifacts, including totem poles. In the end, he found a man who claimed he had eaten the unfortunate collector.

Oui also hosted several reportages about Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activity, like the article "CIA vs. USA – The Agency's Plot to Take Over America" by Philip Agee, about an alleged Operation PBPrime, whose leaders were the top four men in the CIA and whose target was the control of the U.S. government.

In a more humorous vein, Oui also published the essay "The 3 Most Important Things in Life" by Harlan Ellison in its November 1978 issue. The three things in question were sex, violence, and labor relations, each illustrated by anecdotes from Ellison's life. The sex anecdote involved a less-than-successful assignation with a young woman, the violence anecdote was about witnessing a murder in a movie theater during a screening of Save the Tiger, and the labor relations anecdote was Ellison's version of the story of his being fired after only one morning at The Walt Disney Company for jokingly suggesting the making of a pornographic cartoon using the primary Disney characters. The piece has since been republished in Ellison's Stalking the Nightmare and Edgeworks 1. Oui also published short fiction.

A 1977 interview by Peter Manso of the then 29-year-old emerging actor Arnold Schwarzenegger on issues like sex, drugs, bodybuilding, and homosexuality produced some embarrassment 25 years later to candidate Schwarzenegger in the 2003 California gubernatorial campaign.

During the 1970s, Oui printed a copy of Shere Hite's questionnaire about female sexuality that was used as the basis of The Hite Report. Replies were received from 253 of the magazine's women readers.

Despite its popularity, Oui was unable to produce a profit. Furthermore, management realized that Oui was taking more readers from Playboy than from Penthouse. So, in June 1981 Playboy Enterprises, based in Chicago, ended its Oui experiment. The magazine was sold to Laurant Publishing Ltd. in New York; its new president and chief operating officer was Irwin E. Billman, former executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Penthouse Group.

During the 1980s the magazine maintained its distinction from Playboy by publishing graphic nude pictures like its rivals Penthouse and Hustler. Initially, Laurant featured celebrity nudity in Oui, peaking in 1982 with pictorials of Phyllis Hyman, Linda Blair, Demi Moore, and Pia Zadora. In the same year the magazine bought the short story "Down Among the Dead Men" by science-fiction writers Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann. The editorial plan was to return the magazine to the "younger Playboy image" that it previously had.

The 1990s found the magazine focusing on pop culture and youth-centered topics, with rock musician interviews and an increasingly large comics section that included R-rated versions of the X-rated Carnal Comics: True Stories of Adult Film Stars line, Rip Off Press's Demi the Demoness (later the first adults-only comic character to be adapted as a live action film), and a serialized version of Jay Allen Sanford's illustrated book Triple-X Cinema: A Cartoon History.

The magazine subsequently experienced a significant decline in circulation. As had many of its competitors, Oui expanded its photo content to hardcore in the early 2000s, which included depictions of couples having sexual intercourse, including explicit penetration. Oui ceased publication in 2007.

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