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Playboy Is Featuring Naked Women Again -- After Dropping Nudity a Year Ago Due To the Internet (nypost.com)
mi quotes a report from New York Post: The 63-year-old legendary men's magazine is bringing back nude models in its upcoming issue -- one year after banning naked photos in an effort to boost circulation and attract more mainstream advertisers. That effort obviously has failed. One of the main reasons why Playboy dropped nudity in the first place was because the internet filled the demand. Ravi Somaiya reports in the New York Times, "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 issues published under the no-nudes policy, which featured both scantily clad models and could-be naked women with strategic parts of their body covered up, will all change with the March/April issue now hitting newsstands. The issue trumpets the change with a cover headline: "Naked is normal."
Where are all the Nerds? Oh, right. They read computer mags.
Never mind...
Only in Trump's American can a naked Playboy emerge from the ashes of clothed boringness! We're going to make America undraped again!
Has anyone here ever actually paid for porn?
Too much fake-up, bring back the natural beauty.
Sorry, the whole 'is that a woman or a man with surgery?' isn't likely to go over well with most. That's why there's fetish sites for transgendered folks....
When I was young, my uncle left a Playboy Magazine at our house. I saw it and my mother said "go ahead and look at it, the people in them are all the same".
No, they weren't. Even today, I have never seen a woman that is "the same".
When a kid/teenager can't get the real thing, good ol' Playboy did the job. It opened the wonder of women and all of their "parts" that I had never seen before. It was good old home entertainment. I wore out some pages on my favorite issues (no, they didn't get stuck together but they came close.... oops, pardon the pun).
When I read that Playboy eliminated the nudes, I couldn't believe it.
I'm glad they went back to their roots.
Maybe Playboy is just preparing for the Trumpocalypse. When we all are running oil lamps, not questioning where the precious resource actually came from (humans), and staring at nude Playboy posters that have become illegal (hypocritical) because God only talks to Republican US presidents and the Pope, we will be glad for when your flame flickers, it is as if she seductively dances only for you. The humming of the night drones and screams of those that missed curfew canceling out the spank noise. The audio portion comes from 30 second ham radio broadcasts to make tracing difficult.
eh?, I can assure you the playmates featured came in all colors and flavors, not just blonde and tanned
Sounds like a mistake/scam
make america raunchy again
Playboy was not the only nude picture venue. Just the classiest. Editorial value.
...stuff that matters.
No argument here.
Not every woman got one. It's not really fair as it is. But none for Joy Villa because she offended everyone.
You may have a point
Your chilling rendition of the alternate universe Dark America is exactly why I did not vote for Hillary. Indeed I canceled my order for many barrels of lamp/heating oil the day after the election.
The humming of the night drones
The ones Hillary inherited from Obama....
it is as if she seductively dances only for you
What is really freaking me out is that I know when you were picturing Hillary when you wrote that. *shudder*
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I'm sorry, but naked women are anything but natural.
#DeleteFacebook
Or Andrezza Lyra. She's pretty hot.
Two words: Angel Boris!!!
I don't know about recent editions, but Playboy used to have some of the best writing out there. Seriously.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
Went back east to Illinois to mom's sister. Her husband took me to the basement, which had a TV and pool table. He showed me where the beer was, and the playboys. I was, um, enjoying the playboys when the lights went out. Went upstairs to adults deciding to investigate. Went with them, some drunk off his ass dude had nailed the power pole maybe half a mile from Archie's place (Archie was the uncle, Maxine mom's sister).
Never got back to the Playboys nor the beer, but I've told this story dozens of times in the 40+ years since.
The no-nudes policy was a good try. Not surprising that it didn't work, so they're back to the old way.
As great an idea as Budweiser getting out of the beer business.
"It's all non-alcoholic beverages from us from now on. People are looking to get away from that buzzed feeling."
I think I will read it until I need thick glasses.
At what point did Playboy become porn? Porn = Pornography.
If a simple nude body is now defined as pornography, this country is going down the shitter..... Hustler / Penhouse.. Yeah.. When you can see INSIDE the girl, I'll accept the label of "porn". I don't think Playboy has EVER done that..
I used to be a stockholder in this company, before Hef threw a fit and took it private. Why did he do that? Because investors like me were telling him he was full of shit and his ideas sucked and it was costing the company money, all of which was true. He didn't like it. He took is bat and balls and went home.
The truth about Hef is that he ran the magazine with final editorial control and final say on EVERY business effort they made, worth mentioning, and he was well into senility by the end, making just awful decisions one after another.
One great example was the annual 'contest' the magazine and website held to have readers vote for PMOY. None of that shit mattered. Hef and Hef alone picked the winner and that's why for a long time they were all the same blondes, and why he had three of them at once as girlfriends. Hef didn't give a shit about the readers or the company. The decision to drop nudity was actually the first idea in decades that didn't come from Hef. Somebody else came up with it and Hef was so out of it, he waved it through.
Which was a disaster. Like most of Hefs ideas.
Cooper Hefner has a much sharper idea of what he wants to do and he gets what the reader wants. Um well, he gets the girls AND what the readers want to see. So maybe he will be able to make a miracle out of it.
Thanks to Hef, the company has spent decades ignoring massive IP they could have been monetizing, like the bunny girl costumes. That outfit is famous worldwide and isn't considered nearly as adult as the magazine. So why hasn't Playboy had their bunny girls everywhere? All they do license is the rabbit head logo, and then for shit like bad cologne sets and stickers. WTF.
I hope Cooper turns the merchandising around. I really do.
Sig for hire.
> This just in: Having a weird fetish means there is little free porn for you.
And that accounts for more than half of the porn *sold*.
In another life, I wrote the security system that was used by most "pay sites", sites like GirlsGoneWild and NetvideoGirls with a monthly subscription. There is a lot of free^H^H^H^H^H ripped off tits and ass on the web. People pay for it when there's something special about the site. Either "weird fetish" or just "hook", a gimmick, something a bit different about the site.
In my role, I could see how many subscribers each site had, so I got a good gauge of what sells well. I also got to hear about once a week a customer asking me how they could stop people from ripping off their stuff and posting it on tube sites. DRM doesn't work, I had to tell them. All the music companies spent a hundred million dollars trying to create DRM that would work, but they are stuck selling mp3s for 99 cents because DRM doesn't work. "But Ray, you're the smartest security guy ever, I'm sure you can figure out a way to secure my content. I pay $5,000 for a shoot and 24 hours after I put it on the site some asshole puts it on the tubes! " Nope, can't fix that.
In Trump's 'Merica it now pays to be politically errect.
Yes, I grew up lokng at Playboy - as a boy. As I got older (college) I read the stories, artcles, and advertising.
An American thing, it had that aura of being a symbol.
When I got to graduate school, I got my dad a subscriptionfor his birthday. It was fun when Mom tried to intercept them, and when she did, I got a copy from the newsstand and passed it to him in person....
Not smut, not porn, just beautiful women ( though for a time they were a bit heavier than my taste prefers...).
Jill DeVries. I remember her. Perfect.
Good, I'm glad to hear they're putting back the Playmates.
Even though it's primarily a men's magazine, I still pick up an issue on occasion. It just hasn't been the same over the last year; the faux high-culture style of the magazine lost something essential when it lost the nudes. They aren't the only reason to read the magazine, but it makes for this interesting mix of wit, beauty, and far too many ads for liquor.
Can't wait to get all the nude pictures from the upcoming issue for free on the internet 3 seconds after it hits newsstands... or wherever they sell magazines anymore.
One of the main reasons why Playboy dropped nudity in the first place was because the internet filled the demand
Like the Internet didn't fill the demand for news and opinion articles.
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No problem with nudity, as long as every "scantly clad lady" photo is matched by an equal sized photo of a nude man in the same issue. Otherwise, it's sexism. Women are not animal to be showcased like horses or bovine. If men still want that, let them take their part in the show. Hey John, want to see Jane's private parts displayed in public? Sure, as long as you too show what you are hanging.
What I want is: not a bitch, not fat, gets very lubricated when aroused and is proficient at no hand oral sex.
i wondered when i saw some new PB girls on youtube, all nude, and very nicely shot and sexy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
Find out the damage that pornography is doing to your mind.
Put Melania on the front cover. It'll sell millions.
I pay $5,000 for a shoot and 24 hours after I put it on the site some asshole puts it on the tubes
Definite proof that what they need, is some sort of patronage/crowd-sourcing.
Get 200 guys pay an average of 25$, the highest bidders get to make request (so they can fullfill whatevet they want they could not easily find elsewhere) - biggest bidders get to take a small part in production (either technical, like holding light. Or a small cameo in a scene. Whatever floats their boat)
Then it doesn't matter if the film is on porn hub the next day, he already got his 5000$ back before he even started.
Kind of how the request for weird fetishes on the image board work.
(Or some niche-fetish porn site offer paid requests)
If he cannot get 5'000$ in *advance* then there's slim chance that he'll ever be able to them after-ward.
If nobody is interested enough to pay to have him film it, he should instead try to think of something original enough to attract attention (and money).
Or switch job.
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What the fuck is a rosebud photoshoot? I wouldn't normally bother to ask but I googled it and got nothing but Orson Wells.
They can't compete with scratch and sniff magazines!
I'm a nudist ("naturist"). Nudity is prosaic. I see more naked people every weekend than many of you have seen in your entire lives.
American society makes such a big deal about nudity, when our media is literally saturated with it. People like nudity, and not just for porn. There's a vocal minority of never-nude types who raise a fuss. I do photography as a hobby. If I post a beautiful flower online it might get 4 views. If I post a non-sexual nude photo it'll get 107 views. People like nudity.
I've observed that hard core porn people are just immature. I used to have a co-worker who would view porn on his work computer and try to interest me.
Him- "Wow. Look at her breasts!!!"
Me- "Yes, most women have those."
Him- "Wow, look at her pu$$y!!!"
Me- "Yes, you usually find those on females."
Yeah, breasts and weenies are unique, but a breast is just a breast and a weenie is just a weenie. Act like you've seen them before.
Bewbs!
PS please post link.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Really! You guys must have run out of tech news yo post here.
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For me, it's the huge tattoos and all the "choking and gagging" that are a turn off. Do people really get into that or is it just a symptom of the quality of "actors" who are in the business now? I'm not interested in watching a nasty bar skank get humiliated and degraded by a guy who acts like he's thinking more about what he has planned for lunch than the girl in front of him. Don't really want to see rimming either.
Seriously girls. What's with the tattoos? I saw this woman who must have been every bit of four hundred pounds out waddling around a couple of nights ago. She had tattoos (looked fresh) on the tops of both feet/hooves. Did she really look in the mirror and think that all she needed was to ink up a bit and she'd be ready to rock? I will be so glad when this fad finally wears out.
The Internet did not kill Playboy. Playboy killed itself. I once knew a girl that worked at Playboy. She told me that by far, the majority of employees are women. I am not surprised. As far as I know, the DAUGHTER of the founder is in charge of the magazine but I may be wrong. So women writing and designing a magazine made for men. Not surprised this is heading for disaster. If I remember correctly, they once showed Marge Simpson (from the comic series) naked. I mean, really? Besides that, I find the pictures overly artistic and photo-shopped. Pink and Amy (English site seem to be discontinued) has often nice picture. Just an example (not a very good one): https://www.amypink.de/2017/01...
Suggested clickbait headline.
Natural? Why the fu_k would anyone claim air-brushed, photo-shopped, heavily made up models in specialized lighting are natural?
Or it didn't happen.
Why?
I worked for IEG (Seth Warshavsky, Wikipedia it...). People pay for porn.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Why do you suppose that is? I think it must be because Walmart is the best place to work for compared to those others
Nooo. Because it is the largest employer, and sometimes the only employer, with open positions. Other smaller players have equally shitty positions, but in less numbers, or have better positions (but again, in smaller numbers.)
I'm not going around hating Walmart, but I'm not going to bullshit myself to think people go to work at Walmart because ZOMGITSOFUCKINGAWESOMETHEBESTBIGLY.
Nude or clothed, print is dead.
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Rosebudding is controlled rectal prolapse. It makes the ass look like a big meaty pussy when done right.
Uh huh. And if she dares to open her mouth, you'll just stick your dick in it to shut her up?
Come on! All these posts and I had to be the one to say that?
Sigh, what's this world coming to.
Dear Playboy: I hate to say I told ya so, but, I told ya so.
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