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Playboy Launches Safe For Work Website
If you're one of the three people in the world who actually reads Playboy for the articles, today is your lucky day. Every young boy's favorite magazine to find in their uncle's closet has launched a "safe for work" website. From the article: "TheSmokingJacket.com will contain none of the nudity that makes Playboy.com NSFW — not suitable for work. Instead, it'll rely on humor to reach Playboy's target audience, men 25 to 34 years old, when they are most likely to be in front of a computer screen."
"This site contains content from the following categories: Adult/Mature Content;Entertainment; and has been automatically blocked". It is distinguised from playboy.com (category:Pornography), but unless they can get the "Mature" label dropped this will remain just beyond reach.
Playboy has been doing this sort of thing for a while (this from 1994). T
Looks like the site content categorizing service my office's proxy uses has it marked as 'adult', I imagine that will be the case for many others as well.
Er, what is the point? Oh that's right - everyone *reads* Playboy for the humor and interesting articles... (rolls eyes)
Playboy used to be a great venue for articles from many famous and influential authors (including a quite a bit of original sci-fi), plus interviews, humor, reviews, etc. It was a true "men's magazine". It really wasn't just for teh bewbies (although that was completely awesome, of course). Since the advent of internet porn, they've been struggling to compete and the quality of their editorial submissions has declined dramatically. Nowadays, saying "I only read it for the articles" is just dumb and meaningless.
If they put their back-catalog of articles on that new website, I'd sign up in a New York second.
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
The video's are filtered by geolocation, same as hulu.
Not using an American IP = 'This video is unavailable in your location.'
I'm a 23 year old male who subscribes to playboy. For the articles. No, Seriously.
I have plenty of devices in my house capable of playing online porn (few computers, laptop, iphone, xbox, nintendo ds...), so I'm completely desensitized to the softcore pictures of playboy. Some of them are decent to look at, but nothing happens in the pants department.
On the other hand, they have some decent interviews and some AMAZING stories. Some of the comics are pretty funny too.
More importantly, it gives me something to look at while taking a shit, and in the end what more can a guy ask for?