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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 is the end of an era.
WTF?
Playbody without a centerfold is like... like... like... I don't know. What's it like??? I've never conceived of such a thing.
Around the late 1990s....the BX empire decided that they wouldn’t sell men’s magazines (special lobbyist pressure on the Pentagon). Around the time, I predicted that the BX cut would carve out thirty-percent of the readers of the Playboy.
Where is my cancel button?
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I always bought it for the articles.
So, that lecherous old bastard is 89. Wow.
He got really lucky.
Two different sources and two different stories about the same issue. We will leave both of them up.
Thank you!
My blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold....
I reckon he should have been in the 4th echelon of hell by now,but I don’t make the rules.
Its like being served a plate of Aunt Jemima Pancakes, but without butter, syrup and sausages.
Now we will find out who reads the articles.
“Playbody without a centerfold is like... like... like... I don’t know. What’s it like??? I’ve never conceived of such a thing.”
Wow. So people nowadays really ARE only reading it for the articles!
I guess they once tried to make a magazine for married men— it had the same woman in it every month!
“Its like being served a plate of Aunt Jemima Pancakes, but without butter, syrup and sausages.”
Sausages would be Playgirl.
Maybe it’s just me, but there is a difference between NUDE and COMPLETELY NUDE. Another Headline that doesn’t match the Story. Ho Hum...
Then again, I thought Playboy wasn’t Published anymore.
Sure...
Depends on your definition of lucky. He's no doubt surrounded by voluptuous 20 year old women who will meet his every need. But at 89 his needs likely consist of wiping his butt and helping him remember what an erection used to be back when the Viagra still worked. Maybe they draw him pictures.
Lucky? Maybe, I guess.
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