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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?
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
better than Obama, where Playmates got hope and a change of clothes
Not every woman got one. It's not really fair as it is. But none for Joy Villa because she offended everyone.
I'm sorry, but naked women are anything but natural.
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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.
Err...who wants to see that?!?!
LOL, but seriously, guys are visual beings, they want to see and react to beautiful women which in general is not the majority of the female population.
Hell, its getting worse and worse today, as that it is getting to where a majority of modern females not only are overweight and obese, but we are NOW actually telling everyone "this is ok"...and they're believing it.
It is NOT ok to be obese, and not for the sake of aesthetics, BUT for health concerns.
The looking hot part is just gravy that goes along with being fit and not fat.
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Every month.....same chick....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Yes, but who wants to see that?
I get the impression, most guys want a young ass with huge tits. Any woman around that doesn't hurt, but doesn't add much to the experience either.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Heh, you're probably right. But I think Hef's daughter wanted to go after classier babes to compete against SI's swimsuit issue.
Basically all the best-looking female athletes and entertainers are willing to strip down in front of the camera, as long as it the end result is not considered porn. I guess Playboy couldn't convince enough of them that it was now a mainstream mag like SI or the women's mags.
I think I will read it until I need thick glasses.
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.
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Eh, are you crazy? wife = chick? That must be some new use of the word chick I was previously unaware of.
> 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.
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.
Well, they all start as a chick and become a harpy.
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, chick is slang to refer to a girl or woman, not specifically a wife.
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i wondered when i saw some new PB girls on youtube, all nude, and very nicely shot and sexy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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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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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.
Chick is derived from the Spanish "Chiquita" meaning "young girl".
Nothing about looks in there.
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Christ, get over it already, you won! you don't have to talk about HRC anymore!
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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...
Eh, are you crazy? wife = chick? That must be some new use of the word chick I was previously unaware of.
I don't recall my "honey" having anything to do with beekeeping, nor does my "baby" resemble her infant state in any way, so how about we lay off the attacks on wife slang already. You're making a grammar Nazi look tame by comparison.
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Wrong. "Chick" derives from US informal "chicken", meaning a young, inexperienced person, as in "she's no spring chicken."
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Right. Because when a word gets borrowed into another language it like totally retains all the connotations and nuances of the original.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Nope, it comes from, well, let's plagiarize:
From Middle English, from Old English icen, cycen ("chicken"), diminutive of coc, cocc ("cock, rooster"), or from Proto-Germanic *kiuknan. Cognate with Dutch kuiken ("chick, chicken"), Low German küken ("chicken"), German Küken ("chick"), German dialectal Küchlein ("chicken") and Old Norse kjúklingr ("chicken"). More at cock, -en.
The first attested use in this fashion as in "Elmer Gantry" in 1926 by Lewis. The Spanish "Chiquita" is of recent origin, and borrowed from English. If it was of Spanish origin, it would have likely either been a variation on "Nina" or "Pollo".
Why?
I worked for IEG (Seth Warshavsky, Wikipedia it...). People pay for porn.
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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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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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Hell, its getting worse and worse today, as that it is getting to where a majority of modern females not only are overweight and obese, but we are NOW actually telling everyone "this is ok"
In West Africa and much of the Pacific Islands, men have a preference for obese women. In fact, the oldest beauty standard statue we have is a fairly obese woman.
Personally, I'm attracted more to less obese women, but I don't pretend that it's some product of millions of years of evolution so I can feel superior about it.
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Hey, good for you....someone has to like the chubby ones, but not for me....
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Come on! All these posts and I had to be the one to say that?
Sigh, what's this world coming to.
The Spanish chiquita (that's the female form; a male would be a chiquito) is derived from the Spanish language use of chico and chica as words to describe children and teens. (The literal meaning is small, from the Latin ciccum; they're also used as adjectives with the literal meaning.) A chiquito or chiquita is a diminutive form, and thus literally a small small person. Diminutive forms are used as endearments in Spanish, even for seemingly unlikely words like abuelo/abuela (grandfather/grandmother).
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (source: https://www.merriam-webster.co...), the Chiquitos are a people of southeast Bolivia and also their language. The etymology is given as being derived from the Spanish word chico.
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back in the day married men were the biggest customers of the magazine. we kids used to dig the mags out of neighbor's trash to.....er, read the articles. early porn piracy, 70s style.