Paul Raymond Publications designed a magazine in response to what two US adult magazines?
Mayfair (magazine) Mayfair is a British adult magazine for men. Founded in 1965, it was designed as a response to US magazines such as "Playboy" and "Penthouse", which had recently launched in the UK. For many years it claimed the largest distribution of any men's magazine in the UK. It is a softcore magazine and is thus available in newsagents, although some larger retailers require a modesty bag to hide the cover.
After Dark (magazine) After Dark was an entertainment magazine that covered theatre, cinema, stage plays, ballet, performance art, and various artists, including singers, actors and actresses, and dancers, among others. First published in May 1968, the magazine succeeded "Ballroom Dance Magazine". In the late 1970s Patrick Pacheco took over the editorship from William Como and strived for a time to make the magazine a more serious critical monthly with a greater emphasis on quality writing, doing away with color printing inside and reducing photos to a few inches square. This was a clear reaction to Como's "eye-candy" thrust, but evidently that is not what the readership was looking for as sales were low, so in 1981 Louis Miele replaced him at the helm and returned to the full-color format with plenty of skin on show. It seemed however that the day was done for "After Dark", perhaps because several newer magazines were now doing a better (and more explicitly targeted) job of appealing to the magazine's original readership, for Miele's incarnation of "After Dark" folded after only a couple of years, this time for good.