No more nudes in Playboy magazine.
WASHINGTON, Oct 13 – Playboy, the adult magazine that launched in 1953 with a sultry Marilyn Monroe on its cover will stop publishing the photographs of the fully nude women so closely associated with it. Playboy will no longer publish nude photographs of women, the New York Times reported on Monday in an article quoting Scott Flanders, the company’s chief executive.
The popular magazine – famed for its bunny girls – has seen dozens of famous faces strip off for its cover including Kate Moss, Pamela Anderson and Kim Kardashian. The decision came after a top editor of the magazine met with its founder Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion last month, according to chief executive Scott Flanders. Founder and editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner, 89, who in his trademark silk pajamas has embodied the lifestyle, agreed last month with a suggestion by top editor Cory Jones to stop publishing images of naked women, the Times said. But with pornographic images now so readily available online, and accessible via a variety of connected devices, Playboy is selling less and less copies. In order to be allowed on now-ubiquitous social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram that drive Internet traffic, Playboy has already made some content safe for work, according to Flanders.
After its initial success, the magazine was attacked from the political right because of the nudity and from the left by feminists who said it reduced women to sex objects. The magazine has always had intellectual appeal with top writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Joyce Carol Oates, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin and Alex Haley for men who liked to say they did not buy the magazine just for the pictures. “Don’t get me wrong,” Mr.
