ABSTRACT
A Revista do Homem, an erotic magazine now known as Playboy, began publishing in Brazil in the 1970s, a troubled period for the Brazilian media, which the government had been censoring since 1968, with the institution of AI-5. Censorship was one of the methods the dictatorship used to control opinions and, according to the generals’ speeches, preserve the family’s good morals and customs. Because of its erotic content, the magazine had to pass the scrutiny of official censorship, which meant that tax cuts affected its production. The purpose of this article is to understand how officials evaluated the content published in A Revista do Homem and what is the impact of prior censorship had on its editions. This descriptive and historical research, with documentary analysis of 122 censorship opinions, seeks to understand the minutiae of the censorship process during the dictatorship. This article concludes that despite the DCDP’s moral control efforts, there was a certain permissiveness, mainly due to certain censors understanding that the magazine had a well-defined audience.
Keywords:
A Revista do Homem; censorship; eroticism; military dictatorship; pornography