1 hour ago, RocketQueen said:

I had completely forgotten about that forum. I was a member as well - I had purchased a number of Playboy mags years ago and decided to upload the scans there, since I felt the community would genuinely appreciate them.

I understand your point. There are models, such as Eva Voorhees, who appeared in adult magazines in a manner that was not inappropriate. However, as @parisienne mentioned, it is a fact that many of the models featured in those Greek publications later transitioned not only into adult modeling but into pornographic work. That is something I find regrettable.

I‘m totally on your side when it comes to this. There is absolutely nothing wrong with nudity if fine for the model but porn is porn. It was possibly the free will of those models to transcend from classical modeling to porn as it was possibly more lucrative for them but straight porn often has women-degrading tendencies or is simply degrading women and it is regrettable when women end up in this situation.

And there is one big difference - successful models that are doing sexy stuff for Playboy, Penthouse etc etc get a whole lotta money for it. The regular models that are ending up in proper porn have not been successful enough as models to make a living from it and then they try out the „dirty side of modeling“.

Greece has always been a rather less important side market with low budget bookings only. Doing Greece as a model is usually only done to fetch the numerous Greek editorials and when this has been achieved then they quickly leave Athens again to go to more important markets with new editorials. Greek agencies always had a massive problem to get decent models into town and have a tendency to accept everyone who wants to go there (kind of like Istanbul). And mediocre models often have a problem to find agencies that are accepting them and will then be sent to Greece since there they have been accepted. The result is that Athens is always full with models that no other markets want to have onstay. But in Greece these models make no money and at some stage they realize that modeling is not fruitful enough. So ending up in porn is not really related to Athens but rather to a market that is full of mediocre models that are only placed in side markets with agencies that are not very picky. You have posted a gazillion of Greek editorials recently and Bang we see what happens to less successful models sometimes….

On 11/18/2025 at 10:57 PM, dailydoseof said:

The girls from the Sweet Harmony video by The Beloved. I can only identify Tess Daly so far.

This will be a tough cookie for all of us but is a tempting project. Problem is not only the fact that they are not very visible but music videos are always very very low budget when not being a musical superstar such as George Michael. The Beloveds‘ first big hit was Sweet Harmony and they only had a smaller club hit before called Sun Rising. They were underground at the time when producing the above video. The result is that the models were local London girls that accepted those really low rates. So basically the level of models below the level that we mostly discuss here - girls with less or no editorials, no bigger campaigns etc. I was already very active in 93 when the song came out, know the video well, know even British girls from that time well and even the British commercial girls at that time but I don’t recognize a single face :(

1 hour ago, RocketQueen said:

I had completely forgotten about that forum. I was a member as well - I had purchased a number of Playboy mags years ago and decided to upload the scans there, since I felt the community would genuinely appreciate them.

I understand your point. There are models, such as Eva Voorhees, who appeared in adult magazines in a manner that was not inappropriate. However, as @parisienne mentioned, it is a fact that many of the models featured in those Greek publications later transitioned not only into adult modeling but into pornographic work. That is something I find regrettable.

I don't think there's such a profession as a ''Playboy model'' anymore.

Now, any singer, blogger, actress, TV presenter or just a rich man's wife can appear there.It's sad and funny and this at the same time.

That's a great explanation, @bintempi ! Thanks for the info!

One thing I’ve always regretted is that my home country, Bulgaria, was part of the Soviet bloc until 1990 and therefore never really developed a presence in the modeling industry. Maybe the only exception was Ralitza Baleva, who, to be fair, didn’t have a particularly big career. Even throughout the ’90s, we didn’t see much success in the modeling world. We only started producing credible homegrown magazines about 20 years ago, but that doesn’t mean much to me since I’m not a big fan of anything post-2005.

1 hour ago, bintempi said:

This will be a tough cookie for all of us but is a tempting project. Problem is not only the fact that they are not very visible but music videos are always very very low budget when not being a musical superstar such as George Michael. The Beloveds‘ first big hit was Sweet Harmony and they only had a smaller club hit before called Sun Rising. They were underground at the time when producing the above video. The result is that the models were local London girls that accepted those really low rates. So basically the level of models below the level that we mostly discuss here - girls with less or no editorials, no bigger campaigns etc. I was already very active in 93 when the song came out, know the video well, know even British girls from that time well and even the British commercial girls at that time but I don’t recognize a single face :(

thank you for your response. and most of all thank you for the elite model book scans you posted. so rare and complete scans. I found them 2 days ago :)

I know the quality of the video is difficult to id the girls. with wind machine, fog and lighting ;) maybe they used really unknown girls for the video . 🤗