The very first issue of Playboy, put together in HH's kitchen in the fall of 1953, sold 70,000 newsstand copies - more than double today's newsstand sales, and in 1953 it was an unknown, unlike today. So, how far Playboy has fallen.
The peak sales were Sept. 1972, when it sold 7 million copies per issue.
The one thing Playboy always had going for it was the centerfold - properly speaking, a true American original. Now they want to get rid of that, thinking it will make Playboy more "acceptable" to buyers.
That's a big assumption, especially if the articles continue to be crap - every issue, it seems, Playboy tries to relate to millionaires, not average guys - endless articles about clothes, cars and gadgets that the average guy can never afford, articles about exotic locations that are unaffordable, etc. Then there's the standard leftist-Dem-Party talking points that always get parroted - Republicans are evil, anti-women, etc.
If Playboy intends to survive on articles alone, they need a major attitude adjustment. And stop using irrelevant, uninteresting idiots (Jonah Hill, Al Franken, etc.) for the interviews (which at one time were good).
Playboy without nekkid wimmin is like Lawn & Garden without... Lawns & Gardens.