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Playboy Launches Safe For Work Website

Posted by samzenpus on from the porn-now-without-nudity dept.

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."

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  1. Playboy w/o nudity? by al0ha · · Score: 4, Funny

    Er, what is the point? Oh that's right - everyone *reads* Playboy for the humor and interesting articles... (rolls eyes)

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    1. Re:Playboy w/o nudity? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I read Playboy for the LACK of articles (of clothing).

    2. Re:Playboy w/o nudity? by Scutter · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.

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    3. Re:Playboy w/o nudity? by The+Archon+V2.0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Er, what is the point? Oh that's right - everyone *reads* Playboy for the humor and interesting articles... (rolls eyes)

      Is there really any other reason to read it? I'm not being facetious: Playboy has neither the monopoly on nor is the best source of pictures of naked women.

    4. Re:Playboy w/o nudity? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Funny

      Er, what is the point?

      Playboy was the place I first read Nabokov, Cheever and many great modern authors too numerous to mention. Playboy was always about great articles. The titties were just icing on the cake.

      Between Playboy and Evergreen Press, I got a great education in modern literature. On the downside, I was sixteen before I knew women had pubic hair and that not all nipples point toward heaven. And it came as quite a shock, let me tell you. I still have not completely recovered.

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    5. Re:Playboy w/o nudity? by blue_teeth · · Score: 5, Funny

      I read Playboy for the same reason I read National Geographic. To see the sights I'm never going to visit --- Anonymous

  2. Icon by michaelmalak · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just this story icon makes this Slashdot story NSFW

  3. Not safe enough for my work by xaosflux · · Score: 5, Informative

    "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.

  4. "Men 25 to 34 years old," really? by Fulminata · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  5. Unfortunately... by Fnkmaster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  6. Three people? by thousandinone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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?