Private Media Group
- This article is about the company owning Private magazine. For alternative meanings see: Private.
Private Media Group, Inc. Nasdaq: PRVT is a pornography company operating worldwide.
Private magazine was established in Stockholm, Sweden in 1965 as the world's first full-color hardcore sex magazine by Berth Milton Sr. In the early 1990s, his son Berth Milton Jr. took over the company. Milton Jr. moved the company to Barcelona, Spain and modernized it with video and Internet content. In 1999, Private became the first adult entertainment company to be traded on the NASDAQ stock market.
Since Private Magazine's launch in 1965, Private Media Group has released three more adult entertainment magazines: Sex, Triple X and Pirate, the latter focusing on fetish and S/M porn. In the last decades, Private Media Group has become one of the leading companies in adult entertainment worldwide, with over 200 adult industry awards. Bestselling DVD releases include the Private Gladiator series, Cleopatra, and Millionaire.