Remembering Paul Raymond

Any death is sad, particularly when the person who died was described in nearly all of his obituaries as the "porn king of Soho." But it wasn't until we starting reading deeper into those obituaries that we realized just how much Parl Raymond had impacted our own lives. The owner of London's raciest nightclubs and publisher of eight of the UK's top ten adult magazines, Raymond revolutionized smut in Britain, doing it dirtier than Hugh Hefner ever dreamed and in an arguably much tougher legal enviornment -- and earning a personal worth of an estimated $1 billion in the process. (He also founded the magazine Club, which was pretty much the nastiest thing we'd ever seen when our innocent young eyes first caught a glimpse of it all those many years ago). Sleazy and shady in the best possible ways, we're really going to miss the guy ... and we didn't even know it.

· Paul Raymond: The Times Obituary (timesonline.co.uk)
· Paul Raymond (publisher) (Wikipedia)
· Club Online (clubonline.com)