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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: 4, Informative) by janrinok on Saturday October 17 2015, @09:16AM
As I am sure that you know, we strive to provide a mixture between science/technology and other stories of interest. The split should be around 70%/30% but this cannot be precisely achieved on any specific day but does average out over time. It was the community that asked for this mix of stories. If you feel that the split is wrong then say so, and if enough people agree with you it can be changed to whatever the community thinks would be a better division.
The vast majority of stories are submitted by our community too. Other than the division already mentioned, as long as those stories meet the other criteria that we have established, we as editors are duty bound to at least consider them for publication. To do anything else would be tantamount to the editors enforcing a form of censorship. You can probably guess what I am going to say next, but I'll say it (again) anyway: if you don't find the stories that we are publishing suit your own tastes, then please submit a story that does.
Nexuses are in the pipeline. This will enable stories to be published in different categories depending on their content. Your own preferences page will allow you to select which of the nexuses you view and which will be hidden from you, thus allowing you to tailor exactly which stories are displayed on your screen. I fervently hope that there will be a nexus for stories regarding "social 'bullshit'" as you term it: I, too, will not be viewing them. Not because the topic is not important, but because they are better covered elsewhere and personally I come here for the science and technology stories. Nevertheless, as an editor, if that is what is submitted I will still be processing them and pushing them out for publication.