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Thursday, 15 October 2015

Playboy to Drop Nudity: PHOTOS

You may have just heard that Playboy magazine will be dropping nudes from it's pictorials.

Yes, really.


And so, you'll not be seeing as much skin as this (apparently):




And this (yes, that's Kim Kardashian):

Yep. Charlize Theron.








Says the excellent article to explain it all in the New York Times:

Playboy’s circulation has dropped from 5.6 million in 1975 to about 800,000 now, according to the Alliance for Audited Media. Many of the magazines that followed it have disappeared. Though detailed figures are not kept for adult magazines, many of those that remain exist in severely diminished form, available mostly in specialist stores. Penthouse, perhaps the most famous Playboy competitor, responded to the threat from digital pornography by turning even more explicit. It never recovered.



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

The New York Times piece says:

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.

Its executives admit that Playboy has been overtaken by the changes it pioneered. “That battle has been fought and won,” said Scott Flanders, the company’s chief executive. “You’re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it’s just passé at this juncture.”

And so, from March, not as much nudity.

Read more here.

Your thoughts?

Also, read about Hugh Hefner the activist and rebel.


(And if you want more nudes, just Google Image search: playboy nude photos - don't tell anyone I told you that, yeah...?

And: THE most popular post on Josie's Juice for the past few months? This old post on Sophie Monk full nude pics. Oh, you guys!

Here is the very first Playboy cover, in 1953, featuring the iconic Marilyn Monroe:



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