Oct 13, 2015

Playboy magazine is to stop publishing images of naked women as part of its redesign, it has emerged.

Its US owners say the internet has made nudity outdated, and pornographic magazines are no longer so commercially viable, the New York Times reports. Playboy's circulation has dropped from 5.6 million in the 1970s to the current 800,000, official figures show. However, the magazine will still feature women in provocative poses - though not fully nude.

'Battle won'
The decision was apparently taken last month at a meeting attended by Playboy founder and current editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner. Magazine executives admitted that Playboy - which was founded in 1953 - had been overtaken by the changes it pioneered, according to the New York Times.

"That battle has been fought and won," Playboy chief executive Scott Flanders is quoted as saying by the newspaper. "You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it's just passe at this juncture." Gone, too, are the days when interviews with figures of the stature of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and Jimmy Carter made Playboy so culturally and politically significant, says the BBC's Nick Bryant in New York.

Playboy's website has already banished nudity, partly to give it access to social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. And its popularity has soared with web traffic quadrupling. A brand long synonymous with salaciousness is cleaning up its act, and all with the blessing - apparently - of the 89-year-old Mr Hefner, our correspondent adds.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34511999

 

Oct 13, 2015

Who the h--- checking out PlayBoy in 2015?

 

Oct 13, 2015

I wonder if Hugh is still doing a bit of riding at 89

 

Oct 13, 2015

Welp

 

Oct 13, 2015

I just dont know if his heart could take it but then again, maybe that's what's been keeping him going so strong.




sad times, end of an era. I have memories of being a young girl looking at the Playboy mags my uncle used to keep..

 

Oct 13, 2015

defo at that age

he's probably bored of it now would rather have a cup of tea with the feet up watching a movie

 

Oct 13, 2015

the WWE Diva ones were legendary

 

Oct 13, 2015

torrie wilson

 

Oct 13, 2015

Chyna ....

 

Oct 13, 2015

 

Oct 13, 2015

Trish Stratus

 

Oct 13, 2015

...and men 60+ cried out. No one else was effected.

 

Oct 13, 2015

Bruh Trish was never in playboy. Stahp

 

Oct 13, 2015

Ik but d---