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In December 2014, CEO Scott Flanders hinted that nudity could vanish completely from the Playboy brand.
In a bid to make itself more relevant, Playboy magazine has officially announced they're no longer running photos of fully nude women:
Playboy officials have declared that they've won a culture war, so they're moving on. "You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it's just passé at this juncture," said Scott Flanders, Playboy's CEO, in an interview with the [New York] Times. He also said: "That battle has been fought and won."
[Ed. note: I was unsure as to whether this story was germane to our site. But then I stepped back to look at the bigger picture. At one time, Playboy pretty much *owned* its category, though with time other publications later rose up to challenge it. Times have changed. Just how relevant are print publications these days? What other storied publications have disappeared? Which are next? What will the publishing landscape look like in ten or twenty years?]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 16 2015, @09:17PM
For those who legitimately did read it just for the articles nothing will change. Those who read it for the nudes would... wait... who reads Playboy anymore anyway? It used to be a right of passage for an of-aged teen to successfully hide issues of it from their parents/guardians. Now it's a relic from a time long gone. It's too easy now. Just make sure you're incognito, Google with safe search off, and bam.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 16 2015, @09:30PM
10 year olds now have access to all the midget farting porn with baseball bats they desire. This is a good move for Playboy.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Francis on Sunday October 18 2015, @12:56AM
That sounds more like Hustler than Playboy.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday October 18 2015, @11:34AM
Naw, smartphone, tablet,, and of course the good ol' computer.
If I had had access to portable porn like those, I would of spent all my time in the bathroom and today I would be known as "Needle dick the bug fucker...."
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(Score: 5, Funny) by davester666 on Saturday October 17 2015, @03:05AM
I still remember having breakfast in a restaurant, reading a newspaper, and a friend of mine comes in with his girlfriend [I knew both of them though a church I no longer attended], and the place is busy, so they ask to join me. No problem. They sit down, and she notices I have a magazine in a plain brown bag.
"Is that an explicit magazine?", she asks (but doesn't pick it up or look in the bag).
"Yes, it is".
"Do you read it for the articles or the pictures"
"Mostly for the articles, but the pictures are also pretty important."
Finally, she looks like she is ready to lay into me for being a creep and decides to critique the specific magazine I bought, picks up the bag, pulls out the magazine, and.... Electronics Monthly.
My friend starts laughing.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday October 17 2015, @10:19AM
I'm sure it contained many pictures of undressed electronics. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Saturday October 17 2015, @07:51PM
The pages did wind up getting sticky.....
I always would read it eating a jam sandwich.