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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Nudes are old News" at Playboy
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/business/media/nudes-are-old-news-at-playboy.html?_r=0"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."
A sign of the apocalypse? Or
trumad
(41,692 posts)Yavin4
(35,445 posts)How do you make money selling something that's freely and abundantly available on your phone?
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)Subscriptions are down 90%.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)sir pball
(4,758 posts)Also Joseph Heller, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ian Fleming, Vladmir Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, Truman Capote, Philip Roth, Philip K Dick, and that's probably a tenth of it. And then the interviews, I'm not even gonna start on those. It used to be one of the great American intellectual honors to be in that column.
Of course, I didn't turn my nose up at the nude ladies (really no more obscene than what I can see at the Met, unlike Hustler or Penthouse), but they seemed almost secondary to the writing.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)When he ran the magazine with an iron hand, it was pretty unbeatable. Yeah, Penthouse and Hustler forced him into territory where he didn't belong. The Internet also complicated things. But once he became more of a figurehead and mascot for the magazine, its mojo took a serious trip down south.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I remember a lengthy article about the deep and secret connections between Howard Hughes and Richard Nixon that was the first ever to explore that swampy corner of the Nixon bog. I read it for years - and cover to cover.
Orrex
(63,220 posts)Human101948
(3,457 posts)And there was a long debate about "going pink" because Hustler was doing it and killing them in circulation. Haven't seen the magazine in years so I wonder if they still do show those revealing shots.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)FOR FREE.
Sexual objectification has gone techno. Print smut is just not gonna make it anymore.
Javaman
(62,533 posts)it's been on life support after that.
I had the opportunity as a young 20 something to go to the Playboy club in Manhattan on the very last night it was open.
I couldn't figure out what all the fuss was about.
It seemed like a throwback to my dads era for sure.
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)The mag has been a money loser for decades now.
Atman
(31,464 posts)I bet they are a few issues that are gonna be worth a lot more than your Beannie Babies.
Whiskeytide
(4,462 posts)In 1982 I was helping a college friend move out of an old house. There was a locked closet and he'd never been in it. I picked the lock and inside we found several boxes of old Playboy magazines. Probably 80 or more. He gave them to me after check with his landlord who denied any knowledge of them.
A few from the late 50s and a lot from the 60s. It really was cool reading the editorials and letters about the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War and the moon landing in "real time". Kind of like a time capsule. I suppose my roommates and I also looked at a picture or two.
I got married. Let one of my roommates "keep them" for me. He moved home and his mother found them and threw out the whole stash. Sigh. Prob worth a small car today!
olddots
(10,237 posts)gun magazines , muscle magazines , German Boy Racer Car Culture , pimped out travel rags and Repukian Greed attempting to set thing back one hundred years .It was probably the first magazineto build a "life style image " as a market segment .Thus falls Rome .
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)How will Playboy be any different?
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Who buys pr0n in magazines anymore?