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Should Playboy Magazine stop Printing Nude Photos?

Should Playboy Magazine Stop Printing Nude Photos?

  • Yes

    Votes: 6 24.0%

  • No

    Votes: 17 68.0%

  • Not Sure

    Votes: 1 4.0%

  • Hustler & Penthouse

    Votes: 1 4.0%
  • Total voters
    25
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Playboy To Stop Publishing Nudes In Print Magazine.....
Playboy Magazine has decided to stop publishing photographs of fully nude models in its print edition, The New York Times first reported on Monday. Hugh Hefner, the publication's founder and editor-in-chief, agreed with the decision, which was conceived by Playboy chief content officer Cory Jones.

The magazine will debut a "PG-13" redesign in March. While no naked bodies will be featured, models in suggestive poses are still in -- similar to content that's already flooding the brand's Instagram feed. Jones said it remains undecided if centerfolds will continue to appear in the magazine.

The publication's website adopted a safe-for-work look last August when it stopped posting nude photos online in order to draw a wider readership. According to executives, Playboy saw a 12-million leap in monthly unique users after the strategy change. Playboy's print circulation is about 800,000, a significant plunge from the 5.6 million it had in 1975, the Times reported......snip~

Playboy To Stop Publishing Nudes In Print Magazine


So both online and magazine have stopped the Nude Photos of women. What do you think, should they stop printing the Nude Photos?
 
They should, yes. Because their business model has been struggling for years, despite relatively good editorials. A little more class, a little more sophistication, a wider audience, is a good idea.
 
The internet has made the pictures in a magazine obsolete. People now genuinely read it for the articles.
 
I voted no, only because the fully nude photos are its claim to fame. What on Earth is the reason to do this?
 
MMC said:
Playboy To Stop Publishing Nudes In Print Magazine.....
Playboy Magazine has decided to stop publishing photographs of fully nude models in its print edition, The New York Times first reported on Monday. Hugh Hefner, the publication's founder and editor-in-chief, agreed with the decision, which was conceived by Playboy chief content officer Cory Jones.

The magazine will debut a "PG-13" redesign in March. While no naked bodies will be featured, models in suggestive poses are still in -- similar to content that's already flooding the brand's Instagram feed. Jones said it remains undecided if centerfolds will continue to appear in the magazine.

The publication's website adopted a safe-for-work look last August when it stopped posting nude photos online in order to draw a wider readership. According to executives, Playboy saw a 12-million leap in monthly unique users after the strategy change. Playboy's print circulation is about 800,000, a significant plunge from the 5.6 million it had in 1975, the Times reported......snip~

Playboy To Stop Publishing Nudes In Print Magazine


So both online and magazine have stopped the Nude Photos of women. What do you think, should they stop printing the Nude Photos?
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women's rights activists feminists should agree with it .
 
spud_meister said:
The internet has made the pictures in a magazine obsolete. People now genuinely read it for the articles.
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Then you might as well change the name from Playboy too and give it a more serious name. I voted no. Not that I read it, the internet indeed made the magazine rather obsolete.
 
I always thought PB went down hill after going with the gratuitous beaver shots.

Some things should be left to the imagination.
 
Voted "not sure." But it appears the consensus from reporting is that Playboy had no choice but to adapt.
 
This is something that many thousands of people doa ctually care about.
 
Medusa said:
women's rights activists feminists should agree with it .
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Mornin M.
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More than likely they do.
 
MMC said:
Playboy To Stop Publishing Nudes In Print Magazine.....
Playboy Magazine has decided to stop publishing photographs of fully nude models in its print edition, The New York Times first reported on Monday. Hugh Hefner, the publication's founder and editor-in-chief, agreed with the decision, which was conceived by Playboy chief content officer Cory Jones.

The magazine will debut a "PG-13" redesign in March. While no naked bodies will be featured, models in suggestive poses are still in -- similar to content that's already flooding the brand's Instagram feed. Jones said it remains undecided if centerfolds will continue to appear in the magazine.

The publication's website adopted a safe-for-work look last August when it stopped posting nude photos online in order to draw a wider readership. According to executives, Playboy saw a 12-million leap in monthly unique users after the strategy change. Playboy's print circulation is about 800,000, a significant plunge from the 5.6 million it had in 1975, the Times reported......snip~

Playboy To Stop Publishing Nudes In Print Magazine

So both online and magazine have stopped the Nude Photos of women. What do you think, should they stop printing the Nude Photos?
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I was a bit perplexed by this at first, but after looking at the reasoning a bit, it makes sense from a business perspective. As others have said, no one gets Playboy for the pictures anymore. The internet has them for free, in whatever style you want. They buy it for the reading material, with pretty ladies interspersed throughout... that is, if they're buying it at all.

Time will tell if this works for them, but it does make sense to try to broaden their market to a more general adult audience and try to gain readers, rather than lookers. Nude magazines as a lucrative form of pornography are an ageing business model which is almost completely obsolete.

Medusa said:
women's rights activists feminists should agree with it .
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MMC said:
Mornin M.
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More than likely they do.
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Pardon, but being naked is not incompatible with feminism or women's rights.

My only concern, really, is that they choose these careers free of coercion or destitution. We are getting better about that in the developed world, and many women in the industry are active advocates for continuing to improve the consensuality of the industry.

There are plenty of women who enjoy sex work on its own terms, or enjoy the money and don't mind the job. Being a bit of an exhibitionist and deciding to get paid for it is not incompatible with feminism, or with being an empowered and self-determined woman. You'd be surprised what kinds of degrees and career histories some of these ladies had before leaving it to go into sex work, sometimes simply out of preference.

It is not a tenant of feminism that women are incapable of sharing or monetizing their sexuality from a place of empowerment and desire. In fact, I find that opinion to be rather demeaning towards women's intelligence.
 
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SmokeAndMirrors said:
I was a bit perplexed by this at first, but after looking at the reasoning a bit, it makes sense from a business perspective. As others have said, no one gets Playboy for the pictures anymore. The internet has them for free, in whatever style you want. They get it for the reading material, with pretty ladies interspersed throughout... that is, if they're getting it at all.

Time will tell if this works for them, but it does make sense to try to broaden their market in light of their aging business model that is almost completely obsolete.





Pardon, but being naked is not incompatible with feminism or women's rights.

My only concern, really, is that they choose these careers free of coercion or destitution. We are getting better about that in the developed world, and many women in the industry are active advocates for continuing to improve the consensuality of the industry.

There are plenty of women who enjoy sex work on its own terms, or enjoy the money and don't mind the job. Being a bit of an exhibitionist and deciding to get paid for it is not incompatible with feminism. You'd be surprised what kinds of degrees and career histories some of these ladies had before leaving it to go into sex work, sometimes simply out of preference.

It is not a tenant of feminism that women are incapable of sharing or monetizing their sexuality from a place of empowerment and desire. In fact, I find that opinion to be rather demeaning towards women's intelligence.
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I wouldnt be suprised with that.I know there are thousands of weird women in the world.and yes the real feminists should deal with this sexual explotation of women in such fields.
 
SmokeAndMirrors said:
I was a bit perplexed by this at first, but after looking at the reasoning a bit, it makes sense from a business perspective. As others have said, no one gets Playboy for the pictures anymore. The internet has them for free, in whatever style you want. They buy it for the reading material, with pretty ladies interspersed throughout... that is, if they're buying it at all.

Time will tell if this works for them, but it does make sense to try to broaden their market to a more general adult audience and try to gain readers, rather than lookers. Nude magazines as a lucrative form of pornography are an ageing business model which is almost completely obsolete.





Pardon, but being naked is not incompatible with feminism or women's rights.

My only concern, really, is that they choose these careers free of coercion or destitution. We are getting better about that in the developed world, and many women in the industry are active advocates for continuing to improve the consensuality of the industry.

There are plenty of women who enjoy sex work on its own terms, or enjoy the money and don't mind the job. Being a bit of an exhibitionist and deciding to get paid for it is not incompatible with feminism, or with being an empowered and self-determined woman. You'd be surprised what kinds of degrees and career histories some of these ladies had before leaving it to go into sex work, sometimes simply out of preference.

It is not a tenant of feminism that women are incapable of sharing or monetizing their sexuality from a place of empowerment and desire. In fact, I find that opinion to be rather demeaning towards women's intelligence.
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Mornin SAM.
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Well I was going with the thought, that feminists aren't into Women being exploited for their Sexism. Or to be made out as sheer sex objects and fantasies.

As to the opinion.....it was taken from a feminist. Do you think these feminists were being demeaning to women's intelligence?




Why Are Feminist Critics Hung Up on Playboy?.....

In a time when free online media poses an existential threat to print magazines and traditional pornography, 60-year-old softcore monthly Playboy is having a weirdly controversial moment. Evaluating the anniversary issue in Time, Peggy Drexler railed against the magazine’s portrayal of Kate Moss as a “man’s fantasy at the ready.” “It is no longer every man’s fantasy to dominate a woman dressed as a furry woodland creature,” she wrote. “It is no longer every woman’s fantasy to oblige.”

Despite her insistence that times have changed, there was something almost retro in her indignation. There are now websites for couples who both fantasize about dressing up as furry woodland creatures (or adult babies or cartoon characters), not to mention sites where adults can share photos surreptitiously taken of young women’s asses. Playboy, with its almost-40 celebrity cover model, her pubic hair, and a well-meaning feminist panel featuring Erica Jong and Naomi Wolf, seems kind of quaint by comparison.

Yet Playboy’s time-honored brand of benevolent sexism remains an appealing target for criticism, perhaps because it’s so old-fashioned. If only untangling contemporary sexism and sexuality were as straightforward as exposing the Playboy Club! In the New Republic, Diane Mehta charged Monday that erotic literary magazine Adult's “kittenish” and “coquettish” photographs, though woman-edited, made women out to be “for the most part, mere objects.” “Prickett and her contemporaries may have grown up desensitized by porn and flooded with photoshopped images of beautiful women,” she scoffed, “but their feminist-erotic aesthetic is as sultrily coy as an old-school issue of Playboy.”.....snip~


Why Are Feminist Critics Hung Up on Playboy? -- The Cut
 
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