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Paul Raymond (15 November 1925 – 2 March 2008), born Geoffrey Anthony Quinn, was an English strip-club owner, publisher of pornography, and property developer who was dubbed the "King of Soho". [1] [2]
In 1971, Paul Raymond, who ran nightclubs in London's Soho district, acquired Men Only and relaunched it as the start of a top-shelf publishing empire, increasing its circulation to 400,000 copies a month.
Mar 5, 2008 · The self-styled "King of Soho", Paul Raymond was a self-made millionaire and pioneering sex mogul whose x-rated career spanned seven decades from coy post-war striptease to the hardcore world...
Mar 7, 2008 · His death has drawn wide coverage in British newspapers. Many celebrated him as having helped liberate Britain from stuffy Victorian attitudes about sex and “ancient pruderies and restrictive...
An impresario, publisher and property tycoon for more than 50 years, Paul Raymond made a fortune from bringing pornography out of the back streets and turning it into an acceptable — or at least accepted — part of British life.
Meanwhile, in swinging London, a club owner named Paul Raymond, proprietor of the Raymond Revue Bar in Soho, was entering the publishing world. In 1964, he launched King, but it failed, ceasing publication after two issues. In 1971, however, he took over the adult title Men Only, and went on to publish Razzle and Mayfair. The rest is history.
Mar 19, 2021 · Paul Raymond died at the age of 82, having helped transform our notions of sexuality, for good and ill (the film makes no judgments). We now live in a world of lap dancing clubs and internet...
