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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."
Er, what is the point? Oh that's right - everyone *reads* Playboy for the humor and interesting articles... (rolls eyes)
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yeah this is the Playboy SFW site: about:blank
"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.
I work at the SEC, and this does nothing for me.
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Uh huh. So I guess they will have about 2 visitors a month to this site?
My childhood dream of looking at naked women with their clothes on is fulfilled.
The last time I read playboy was about five years ago when I picked up a super cheap subscription for a year. The first issue I received had stories on Elvis. The next one featured Marilyn Monroe. Apparently Playboy doesn't realize that the baby boomers are no longer in their twenties and thirties.
Jokes about "reading the articles" aside, Playboy was once a great source for relevant articles, both fiction and non-fiction, but that ceased to be the case a couple of decades ago.
There used to be some interesting interviews and the like in Playboy magazing, in addition to the skin.
The problem is these articles on thesmokingjacket.com are written for morons. "Get Kinky in Your Backwards Robe" about having sex in a Snuggie. "Larger than Life" - does some chick with 38KKK fake boobs have the world's biggest fake boobs? "Can he survive without hairspray" about Jimmy Johnson's hairdo. "How to get laid at work". That sort of speaks for itself.
I mean, I was thinking a bit like Esquire, but this looks like CollegeHumor.com without the humor, mixed with one of those magazines your wife or girlfriend secretly likes to read in the checkout line but is too embarrassed to buy.
Who honestly reads playboy for the PICTURES these days? I dunno about everyone else, but I find the myriad free videos available online to be vastly superior to any still image, much less the glossy airbrushed crap playboy brings to the table.
On the other hand, at least in years past, Playboy has had some phenomenal articles- both serious, semi-serious, and just funny. I know they used to run a jokes page as well which was always good for laughs.
I haven't actually held a playboy for a long time now, but my point is the same- why pay for stills when you can get video free?
I want to work at the company that would allow this as "Safe for work". Good grief.
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So they know as much about technology as they do about what makes women attractive. (The Playboy answer: tattoos, a shaved gash, breast implants and lots and lots of Photoshopping)
Ya...I love a woman with lots of practice photoshopping too. Graphic artists rock my world!
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I can't imagine it's any less safe for work than Cosmo or the litany of other websites for women's magazines you see at the grocery checkout counter. Of course, it's more HR/socially acceptable to objectify men than women.
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