Playboy is dropping nudity?!?!?

nooshinjohn
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I have not held one in years, but a right of passage is going away...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/playboy-to-drop-nudity-as-internet-fills-demand/ar-AAfnWTw?li=BBgzzfc
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  • Inspector 24
    Inspector 24 Posts: 1,308
    Meh, they make a good point. Why bother buying a mag for overly photoshopped pics of naked women when they're available for free.

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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    Other than Club Polk, a little nudity never hurt anyone. I wonder if they will place any emphasis on music and gear.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,746
    BlueFox wrote: »
    Other than Club Polk, a little nudity never hurt anyone.

    Very true. In Europe the newspapers, regular magazines and TV, which ANYONE can see, have plenty of nudity.

    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,606
    The magazine is almost as dead as it's founder.
    What is he, 80 something?
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,005
    I always just pick one up for the articles anyway. ;)
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    This is BS. It's a God given right for every pre-pubescent boy to have a Playboy stashed under his mattress!!!!!!
    If you can't hear a difference, don't waste your money.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,005
    Looks like that will be a boost for Hustler anyway. Does Playboy think it's going to enter the world of legitimate journalism....if it still exists anyway ? Maybe a sexy version of Better homes and Garden ?
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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    decal wrote: »
    This is BS. It's a God given right for every pre-pubescent boy to have a Playboy stashed under his mattress!!!!!!

    Sooooo, is post pubescent out of the question? I didn't get the official guideline once i became of age....
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • Inspector 24
    Inspector 24 Posts: 1,308
    decal wrote: »
    This is BS. It's a God given right for every pre-pubescent boy to have a Playboy stashed under his mattress!!!!!!

    Why bother, they have the Internet in their hand.

    And something else in the other.

    Probably not a sandwich.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,983
    edited October 2015
    I always kind of felt - at least in its prime - that Playboy, minus the skin, would be pretty much a nonregional (or less regional) version of The New Yorker. Pretty similar suite of editorial content; fiction, nonfiction, cartoons and reviews.

    I don't think I've seen a copy since the mid-1980s, though.
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  • Polkie2009
    Polkie2009 Posts: 3,834
    Probably like many here, haven't bought a copy in about 25 years or so. May have been back when Jennie Mc Carthy won POTY?
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,023
    I feel like that scene in Animal House where "they took the f*$#ing bar!"
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    edited October 2015
    NM, I'd probably get banned
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    edited October 2015
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They should do something inovative like scratch and sniff pics, something that you can't get on the Internet

    NM, I'd probably get banned
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  • MrRoboT
    MrRoboT Posts: 39
    When we were all young it was playboy but now the youth are growing up with largest dirty mag on the planet. Who even knows at what age they are checking this out at? I am sure some like would be freakin out when you got home and mom cleaned up and you think, did she find my mags lol. Now it can be hidden at the touch of a button with no worries.

    It is no big shocker that the nudes leavin playboy but it is a bummer as I always liked when some hot celeb done a topless.
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,909
    edited October 2015
    Hustler did have the old sratch and sniff issue in 1977, I think was the year.
    The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

    It is imperative that we recognize that an opinion is not a fact.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    One less place for Blose to advertise. Five thousand to go.
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,058
    George Grand wrote: »
    One less place for Blose to advertise. Five thousand to go.

    I was going to say they can now advertise in the centerfold
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  • jeremymarcinko
    jeremymarcinko Posts: 3,785
    I think this will help with distribution. Playboy will be available in the grocery stores next to the checkouts for instance, or airports. They have a lot of equity in their brand, so I think making the magazine more appropriate for the general public will certainly help it reach its target market.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,606
    Target market? You mean over the hill guys?
    I think even them have discovered the internet!
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  • jeremymarcinko
    jeremymarcinko Posts: 3,785
    I don't. Playboy is a lifestyle magazine that is aiming towards young professionals. It is based around extraordinary women, products, and ideas that suggests that young men strive for a less ordinary life.
    Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,005
    jeremymarcinko wrote: »
    I don't. Playboy is a lifestyle magazine that is aiming towards young professionals. It is based around extraordinary women, products, and ideas that suggests that young men strive for a less ordinary life.

    LOL.....I don't know one person who thinks PB is a lifestyle mag. Unless that lifestyle is made of money and naked women, and no responsibility. That leaves a few out of the targeted audience.

    Maybe in PB's mind that's the direction they want to take it, but brand wise.....the PB brand isn't associated with lifestyle imho. Not one that revolves around reality anyway.

    GQ would be a good example of a men's lifestyle mag, though a little out there too. I think PB is looking to add that touch of class to it's brand name, which is going to be an uphill battle for them.
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  • Polkie2009
    Polkie2009 Posts: 3,834
    Possibly end up being like a Maxim or FHM magazine?
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  • Jimbo18
    Jimbo18 Posts: 2,337
    Polkie2009 wrote: »
    Possibly end up being like a Maxim or FHM magazine?

    That's exactly what I thought of when I heard about the format. Just not as funny at them.
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  • [Deleted User]
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    so breast sales are sagging? :*
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,023
    The mags sales have tanked. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a marketing ploy to stir up excitement about the mag and try to ramp up sales temporarily just because the name is in the news again. Hef is 90 years old. I can see them getting rid of the physical print mag after he's gone and focusing strictly on the net and TV, etc.
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,909
    edited October 2015
    Yep, Hef is one dose of Viagra away from the big one.

    No pun intended.
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    dromunds wrote: »
    The mags sales have tanked. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a marketing ploy to stir up excitement about the mag and try to ramp up sales temporarily just because the name is in the news again. Hef is 90 years old. I can see them getting rid of the physical print mag after he's gone and focusing strictly on the net and TV, etc.

    Yeah I can't wait to see "playboy after death"
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  • oldmodman
    oldmodman Posts: 740
    Playboy was a huge hit when I was in the sixth grade.

    Now it needs to offer something new.

    Maybe popups in the centerfold. Something like a Fleshlight custom matched to the girl on the paper.

    I will be waiting patiently for an upgradeable Japanese Sex Robot. Cheaper than a girlfriend and way cheaper than a divorce.

    And for the ladies they will be available in not only both genders, but Vampire too.
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,332
    edited October 2015
    I can honestly say I could care less, never cared for the rag, Penthouse was much better IMO, and I could care less what happens to that rag these days as well..

    Nudity can take away from the excitement and beauty of a woman, if a woman has the right eyes I could get lost in them more than her b,r,e,a,s,t,s..

    Not that I don't enjoy a naked woman, but I'm sure some of you "anyway" know what I mean...
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