No More Nudity In Playboy?

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

"Last month, Cory Jones, a top editor at Playboy, went to see its founder Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion.

In a wood-paneled dining room, with Picasso and de Kooning prints on the walls, Mr. Jones nervously presented a radical suggestion: the magazine, a leader of the revolution that helped take sex in America from furtive to ubiquitous, should stop publishing images of naked women.

Mr. Hefner, now 89, but still listed as editor in chief, agreed. As part of a redesign that will be unveiled next March, the print edition of Playboy will still feature women in provocative poses. But they will no longer be fully nude."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/bu...yboy.html?_r=0

The end is near...

[Jason C Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jason C]

My Playboy collection is complete from 1960 to 2012 with more than a few dozen from the 50's. I'm a fan. I support whatever changes they want to make as I had grown tired of the newer content. I often read the articles and found it to be too left leaning for my tastes. There was a time when i appreciated that point of view but that has passed. I don't need the stress these days. Now if I'm in the mood to read a celebrity interview, short fiction or oogle some nubile cuties I reference my library of back issues. Today's plastic barbies don't do much for me. Give me the plastic barbies of my youth and earlier.

This move could generate a short term boost in sales. I'll pick up a few issues looking for some tributes and hope that some old unpublished stuff leaks in.

[The Silly Swede Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close The Silly Swede]

So a nudie mag without the nudie pics. I feel they are greatly overvaluing the attraction of their articles, or filler as I like to call them.

[Jason C Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jason C]

The magazine has been losing money for more than a decade. It's merchandising and TV where they make money. The magazine is critical to the image of the brand, but sales aren't important. If a guy is just wanting to look at naked chicks he's gonna fire up google or buy a bona-fied smut rag like Buttman or Hustler. Playboy really has been a culture magazine for quite some time (arguably since inception). It just happened to have a dozen pages of naked chicks. This move does make sense because now it doesn't have to be sold behind the counter. It can also lose the stigma of being porn. Something it never really was. I can see how this move grows the brand. And if Playboy dies its because its time has passed anyway. I moved on a few years ago. Or should I say that I decided to remain in the past. I'm a Mid-westerner with three small kids. Fancy clothes, expensive alcohols, exotic cars and pricey gadgets are no longer my thing.

[sukebanboy Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close sukebanboy]

PLAYBOY has some decent writers contributing to it for a good while (not sure about the last 10 years though) and , even though the brand is world famous, it could never compete with the harder magazines and now internet..so I think it is a decent decision to focus more on the writing and culture aspects of it....A "lad mag" for intellectuals??

Hope they encourage some decent new writers and develop them...as well as having stuff from more established ones too.

[Alex K. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Alex K.]

I'm surprised that they don't just drop the physical magazine completely and focus on web content exclusively. This will just kill the magazine quicker, the guys who buy it at the newstand are most likely the guys who aren't net savy or own a smartphone.

[agent999 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close agent999]

To quote The People vs. Larry Flynt: "Gentlemen... Playboy is mocking you."

[JLG Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JLG]

so now when someone says "just reading the articles" it won't be a funny lie...

hmm...

i buy Penthouse if i fly. sort of a ritual for the return flight

[Koukol Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Koukol]

No surprise since Hefner's taste for fake blondes with horrible boob jobs destroyed the mag.
And whenever they had a Celeb they always made them up to look completely different and focused more on a artistic photo over a titillating one...this always infuriated me.
The last three issues I bought were about as titillating as the cushion section in a Ikea catalog.

[sukebanboy Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close sukebanboy]

The last three issues I bought were about as titillating as the cushion section in a Ikea catalog.

Lol...u do realise there will be someone on here with that exact fetish and will now subscribw to Playboy thinking it was a recommendation

[JoeS Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JoeS]

Looks like a last ditch effort to save the magazine from going under. I think Hefner would hate to see the magazine vanish while he's alive. If he passes, so does the magazine soon after.

[Jason C Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jason C]

And whenever they had a Celeb they always made them up to look completely different and focused more on a artistic photo over a titillating one...this always infuriated me.

That's an interesting take. I remember being annoyed with the Kristy Swanson layout for that reason. I sent them a scathing email about the non-nude Olivia Munn issue. Not all of them were bad though.

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Every single Playboy centerfold from 1953 to 2016!

[Tom Clark Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Tom Clark]

Nudity is back, sort of. No full frontal. https://reprobatemagazine.uk/2017/02...udity-sort-of/

Newly installed chief creative officer Cooper Hefner (that's Hugh's son, in case you hadn't guessed) announced that the nudity will be back with the March / April issue. Though it's not quite a return to the past. There will be breasts and bottoms, but no full-frontals. “I'll be the first to admit that the way the magazine portrayed nudity was dated”, said Hefner (without explaining just why that was, and why the new version won't be), “but removing it was a mistake. Nudity was never the problem because nudity isn't a problem. Today we're taking our identity back and reclaiming who we are.”

[Jason C Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jason C]

Newly installed chief creative officer Cooper Hefner (that's Hugh's son, in case you hadn't guessed) announced that the nudity will be back with the March / April issue. Though it's not quite a return to the past. There will be breasts and bottoms, but no full-frontals. “I'll be the first to admit that the way the magazine portrayed nudity was dated”, said Hefner (without explaining just why that was, and why the new version won't be), “but removing it was a mistake. Nudity was never the problem because nudity isn't a problem. Today we're taking our identity back and reclaiming who we are.”

So pubic hair and labia is a problem. Glad we got figured out and the future is now bright for Playboy.