Playboy Clubs to mushroom in India,

Due to strict censorship laws there’s no local version of Playboy magazine in India. To make up for the absence signature bunnies will start serving drinks at the first Playboy club to open in the country next month.

An Indian firm with rights to the Playboy brand, PB Lifestyle, will launch the club in Goa in December. It will be the first of 120 clubs, hotels, cafes and shops expected to open in the next ten years, AFP reported.

Chief executive of PB Lifestyle, Sanjay Gupta, explained, however, that the trademark skimpy bunny outfit with a rabbit tail and ears would be revamped to suit India's conservative values. No nudity will be on display, he warned.

"For the obvious reasons of Indian morality and sensibilities, we can't follow the traditional costumes that Playboy bunnies are associated with," Gupta told AFP.

The new outfits will be shown when the club opens its 2,050 square metre premises on Candolim beach in north Goa.

Earlier this year Bollywood starlet Sherlyn Chopra became the first Indian woman to pose naked for Playboy magazine. The 28-year-old wrote to

Playboy and expressed an interest in posing for the legendary magazine. She said she only had “feelings of pure liberation and sheer excitement” about her groundbreaking decision.