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Playboy Is Featuring Naked Women Again -- After Dropping Nudity a Year Ago Due To the Internet (nypost.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the return-to-your-roots dept.

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."

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  1. See, now things are getting better by rubycodez · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only in Trump's American can a naked Playboy emerge from the ashes of clothed boringness! We're going to make America undraped again!

    1. Re:See, now things are getting better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nudes for nerds, stuff that matters ! Yes!

  2. Re:larry flynt for president by rubycodez · · Score: 5, Funny

    better than Obama, where Playmates got hope and a change of clothes

  3. Re:Glad they made amends by ToTheStars · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah? Well, when you were partying, I studied The Blade. When you were having premarital sex, I mastered The Blockchain. While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity, I cultivated Inner Strength. And now that the world is on fire and the barbarians are at the gate, you have the audacity to come to me for help?

  4. Naked is normal?! by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sorry, but naked women are anything but natural.

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    1. Re:Naked is normal?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      In America, naked women look like planets.

    2. Re:Naked is normal?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Do you want to get wooshed? Because this is how you get wooshed.

  5. Re:Free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The biggest hoots were when we people whose name you recognized -- or people you knew! -- came in for porn, especially gay porn.

    I was only renting those for the articles.

  6. Re:larry flynt for president by cayenne8 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Next thing you know, they'll try to come out with a Playboy for Married Men.....

    Every month.....same chick....

    ;)

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  7. Re:larry flynt for president by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, they all start as a chick and become a harpy.

  8. Re:larry flynt for president by sconeu · · Score: 5, Funny

    English doesn't borrow from other languages.
    English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over, and rummages through their pockets for loose grammar.

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