Sure...
I always enjoyed the illustrations by Vargas!
Posted on 10/12/2015 9:36:18 PM PDT by dayglored
Founder and editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner, 89, who in his trademark silk pajamas has embodied the Playboy lifestyle, agreed last month with a suggestion by top editor Cory Jones to stop publishing images of naked women, the Times said.
At a time when every teenage boy has an Internet connected phone and the web is rife with pornography, the magazine has opted to continue featuring women in provocative poses, just not completely nude, the Times said.
"You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free," Flanders was quoted as saying in the Times. "And so it's just passe at this juncture."
The magazine that featured Marilyn Monroe on its debut cover in 1953 is making the changes after circulation dropped from 5.6 million in 1975 to about 800,000 now, the Times said.
After its initial success, the magazine was attacked from the political right because of the nudity and from the left by feminists who said it reduced women to sex objects.
Some changes are still under debate, including whether there will continue to be a centerfold. Playboy magazine's sex columnist will be a woman, who writes enthusiastically about sex, Jones told the Times.
The magazine has always had intellectual appeal with top writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Joyce Carol Oates, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin and Alex Haley for men who liked to say they did not buy the magazine just for the pictures.
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This proves that anything can reach a point of being overexposed. Your tolerance level is ratched up way too high.
Just call this the Neo-Roaring 20s.
He needs to do a sex pose with his shrived up penis.
I guess this means Staple Placement will no longer be an issue for Playboy “readers”.
Remember, a few years ago Hefner admitted that he watches gay pornography movies with his “girlfriends.”
Sure...
I always enjoyed the illustrations by Vargas!
Now THAT's funny, I don't care who you are!
So America has become too decadent even for Playboy.
What a sad commentary on our society.
The absolute pinnacle. His drawings set a standard that will remain for many decades to come. The stuff of dreams.
Say’s it in the article-down to 800thou.My daughter’s best friend was a centerfold.Bought the issue.Not that impressed.She dated a football player after that-the centerfold.He hung around with my daughter’s crowd till he was transferred.
Sure...
... and the cartoons!
“Playbody without a centerfold is like... like... like... I don’t know. What’s it like???”
Like MAD Magazine without a fold-in back cover?
Eh, I'm not so sure.
Nude these days means (in the case of a woman) that her nipples and crotch are showing with no significant covering.
Breast skin (other than nipples) is not considered "nude". Butts are not considered nude, they even show up on FR.
Is a woman who is completely dressed except that her nipples and crotch are visible considered nude?
The terms become very ambiguous when you dive into the details.
Wow, there's a blast from the past...
“I always bought it for the articles.”
Then you should be deliriously happy now because zero nude pics leaves even MORE room for “articles”.
Those staples, so cruelly placed in young women's navels by uncaring publishers, were the clearest indication of Playboy's War on Women.
so, pics of naked men then?
Na na nananana nananana nanananana...
That's been done, too.
I read somewhere (and it was mentioned in comment #24) that Hef took to watching gay pr0n in recent years. So I guess ya never know...
I remember the Madonna centerfoldback in the '80's. Boy was that disappointing. I remember thinking her armpits were hairier than mine and she had no boobs (to speak of). What was I thinking?
All I know is, I know it when I see it. LOL
At my age, I can’t get lost in the details.
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