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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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 16 2015, @09:51PM
I graduated from the University that brought the world the first graphical web browser, the first visibile light emitting diode (LED), the transistor, and plasma TV's among other things. But I still believe our most well known and beloved alumni is Hugh Hefner.
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 16 2015, @10:03PM
Every living organism which has evolved on this planet is compelled, by natural evolution, to attempt above all else to pass on its genes to the next generation. All else follows.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 16 2015, @10:24PM
Yeah, but in this case most of those genes get passed into a wad of tissue paper.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday October 16 2015, @10:29PM
obligatory [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 16 2015, @10:45PM
You don't understand evolution.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by deimios on Friday October 16 2015, @11:03PM
And every ad agency is compelled to exploit this fact to shovel their sh*t towards the male demographic. Sex sells.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 16 2015, @11:45PM
Same way the garbage romance writers sell their s*it thanks to female demographic.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 17 2015, @01:49AM
Asexuals exist, you know. You're generalizing.
Not everyone wants to have children, either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 17 2015, @10:18AM
Wanting to have sex and wanting to have children are two completely different things. Being asexual is an evolutionary dead-end unless you want children and use artificial means, which have only become available relatively recently (i.e. not 2 million years ago).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 18 2015, @08:22AM
Sorry, I forgot: Jesus.
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Saturday October 17 2015, @12:09AM
I'll agree with all but one. The transistor. John Bardeen came here 4 years after he, Brattain and Schockley invented it at Bell Labs.
(Well, sorta "and Schockley". Schockley worked on an improved version (the junction transistor) that became what was widely used which was why he was included in the Nobel. He also alienated Bardeen so thoroughly he left Bell Labs and came to the University of Illinois, and Brattain soon refused to work with Shockley anymore).
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Tork on Saturday October 17 2015, @12:37AM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Saturday October 17 2015, @10:30AM
There, FTFY.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.