As part of a radical redesign that begins next March, the print edition of Playboy will no longer feature nude women. The reason? All the sex on the internet has eliminated the need to actually buy a magazine see a naked woman, duh.
From The New York Times:
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.”
For a generation of American men, reading Playboy was a cultural rite, an illicit thrill consumed by flashlight. Now every teenage boy has an Internet-connected phone instead. Pornographic magazines, even those as storied as Playboy, have lost their shock value, their commercial value and their cultural relevance.
The magazine will still feature “pretty women in provocative poses,” but the overall effect will be “more PG-13.”
Playboy.com today offered a tongue-in-cheek sneak peek at the new non-nude playboy covers that we can expect to see in the coming months, including women in bee-keeping outfits, women in haz-mat suits, and women in full armor (see below).
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