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Playboy Magazine Brings Back Nudity

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And the fandom rejoiced...

Well, that didn’t last long.

Playboy magazine will bring back nude models in it’s upcoming issue after a year of covering up centerfolds in a failed effort to help the magazine attract mainstream advertisers, COO Cooper Hefner announced in a tweet on Monday.

Cooper, the son of founder Hugh Hefner, said the 63-year-old magazine is “taking our identity back reclaiming who we are.”

One year ago in Feb. 2016, Playboy unveiled the first cover of its non-nude era, featuring model Sarah McDaniel in a nod to millenials and social media. “The idea was to look at me from a boyfriend’s perspective,” McDaniel explained the theme of the cover in a statement at the time.

The non-nude format clearly wasn’t a success and Cooper Hefner has been an outspoken opponent of the decision. He was named COO of the magazine last October.

The upcoming issue of the magazine is expected to featured a headline “Naked is Normal,” while touting the return to nudity.
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http://www.thewrap.com/playboy-magazine-brings-back-nudity/
 
I was reading a newspaper column saying that boys used to wait for the Sears catalog so they could look at women in their underwear. Now porn is easily accessible online.

But this makes it sound like the nudity is tasteful and artistic, which is an advantage for the magazine.
 
Gee, "Playboy" was losing money because men were no longer able to look at the naked women, er, ah, read the articles?! What a surprise!

In other news, water is wet! The Pope is Catholic! :)
 
vchimpanzee said:
I was reading a newspaper column saying that boys used to wait for the Sears catalog so they could look at women in their underwear. Now porn is easily accessible online.

But this makes it sound like the nudity is tasteful and artistic, which is an advantage for the magazine.
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Playboy's nudity always had more taste and artistry than the nudity in straight-on porn mags. I'm wondering how the "new" approach will differ from the pre-2016 approach. Cooper Hefner says in the article that Playboy recognizes the changes in gender roles in American society. Could this mean photos of transgendered people or maybe women whose appearance might be more attractive to lesbian readers -- or even photos of gay men?

Also, in the '80s and '90s, when I used to read the magazine regularly, I recall plenty of mainstream advertising in Playboy -- cars, liquors, electronics, various luxury items. Did those advertisers really abandon Playboy over nudity in the new millennium, or was Playboy just another old-media victim of the internet? Those mainstream advertisers have disappeared from the pages of plenty of magazines in which a bare female bosom has never once appeared.
 
I figure sooner or later they wake up over at PB.Readers probably were bored with the current events articles which they can read in other magazines.They always had interesting current events articles in the publication besides the skin.LOL.
 
I guess this means I can play stupid and act like I did not know that nudity has returned to the magazine...honest! I'm just reading the articles... :cool:
 
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