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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NO. That gets it by filters (mostly workplace imposed) that immediately block out the proper spelling of the word and make the topic impossible to discuss.
Not that new. It’s designed to get around dirty word filters.
It may also be an outgrowth of the onling slang of referring to photos of any physical object of mass interest (like watches, guns, collectibles etc.) as “porn”. That’s where I’ve seen it used most.
I can remember when I was a 12 year old boy scout, it was 1964, and we were collecting old newspapers for a paper drive. Someone through out about a dozen copies Playboy. We though we had died and went to young boy heaven.
Just great
How will pubescent boys function now, and get their education?
Napl?
End of an era Napl?
Now that salacious nudity is mainstream, it’s revolutionary to show women covered up?
LOL Today there is always a fall back with Victoria’s Secret on standby.
Reminds me of an old MAD Magazine cartoon from the 1960s.
“A bachelor party surprise is when you realize the girl in the ‘blue movie’ is the girl you are about to marry!”
Objectifying the beauty of women is innate or used to be before we put mens balls in a Chanel lock box
***because of the hard left turn it mad decades back.***
Probably around 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was murdered. I still remember the article illustrated with the rattlesnake coiled around the Statue Of Liberty in which the magazine tried to lump all conservative groups with the KKK and “paramilitary” groups.
Never wasted money on PB since.
back in the dark ages of 1968-1970, I preferred CAVALIER. No leftist crap.
Had the experience of the one and two holers myself. Growing up we had indoor plumbing in the state of Texas. Dad, from North Dakota farmland had family up there we visited every year. Aunts/uncles on the farm and some continued to have nothing but. There were a few who did have indoor plumbing and of course those were the ones we children would want to visit and spend the night. One thing about Texas cooking compared to the cuisine of N.D. Down here nothing but margarine used. Up there cream, butter, and rich, rich food. It was there where I would become sick as a dog. And it’s an unpleasant experience with the need to make an OH visit in the middle of the night repeatedly. Fondly remember the hand pump in the middle of the kitchen sink in my Aunt’s home. And the joy when my uncle would allow us youngns a ride on his tractor as he plowed the field. We were always ready to carry his lunch from kitchen to field just to ride on the tractor. And breakfast. N.D. cooks ALWAYS served a sweet for breakfast. Cookies,strudel, etc. As Kids, breakfast would always be a treat. Those were the days remembered fondly..with the exception being those sick hours, of course.
That's why I prefer American Iron. The bike porn is true Bike Porn, with few, if any chicks. Honestly. Wife used to laugh when the AI would arrive, and I'd be drooling over the bike porn.
***Playboy started out as a mag with the specific aim of objectifying women.***
I remember the cartoons of Shel Silverstein showing how they first conceived the idea for PLAYBOY, from jokes about assembling it on a kitchen table with ketchup and mayo stains on it, to Hefner’s problem of what to put in the centerfold.. “A car? A plane? A gun?...what?”
How true! I was discussing Herman Melville’s book about Ahab and the White Whale and found I could not use the title.
In the olden days there were other magazines available like MEN, MALE, STAG, REAL MEN with adventure stories and a section of big breasted “cheesecake”.
I remember going to the drugstore to pick up the evening newspaper and being educated while cruising the magazine isles in 1959. There were plenty of nudie magazines on the rack other than Playboy.
In the late 1970s the homo industry started making inroads on them with titles like MANLEY MEN! The real men’s magazines then ceased publication rather than be mistaken for a fag mag. I do miss those paintings by Mort Kunstler.
Well, for someone not connected to the internet, there are plenty of hard core pornographic magazines still available. There are numerous ones to which one can subscribe and get the magazine delivered by snail mail. There are places such as liquor stores which openly sell hard core pornography.
And then there are places with pornography stores, peep shows, etc. which have all of the explicit pornography one could imagine.
kinda like the David Mann illustrations in Easyriders magazine .... kinda ....
Yeah, but web pages don't get stuck together ...
Actually, it's been both...males are mesmerized by the beauty and the sexual attraction. Hardwired...no getting rid of it.
But the rad fems and now the metrosexual males really believe they can eliminate that desire from males. Well good luck with that. Doomed to failure no matter if they get rid of every skin mag extant.
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