“As part of a redesign that will be unveiled next March, the print edition of Playboy will still feature women in provocative poses,” reports The New York Times, adding, “But they will no longer be fully nude.”
The Times story continues, “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.’
The article adds, “Playboy’s circulation has dropped from 5.6 million in 1975 to about 800,000 now, according to the Alliance for Audited Media.”
The adult-oriented TV channel Playboy TV was sold by Playboy back in 2011. It only licenses the Playboy name.
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A copy of the first Playboy magazine, in 1954, which featured pictures of Marilyn Monroe nude within its pages
Watch it drop to zero.
I have to wonder what universe Playboy now lives in. The reason given for this change is pretty much meaningless. Throughout the world they are mocked by the cancerous growth of the repressive, anti-free speech PC movement on one end of the political spectrum, to that of theocratic fundamentalist religions. If history shows us anything it is that culture battles/wars (like those for freedom) are never finally won. There are only temporary reprieves of a generation or two or three, until the forces of repression/oppression come back for another go around… which they usually win… until the next rebellion rises.
Goodbye, Playboy.
The beginning of the end. The real question is how much longer Playboy will be able to hold on before they go bankrupt or just close.