Playboy will no longer publish
photos of nude women as part of a redesign, the decades-old
magazine announced Tuesday.
The magazine that helped usher in the sexual revolution in
the 1950s and '60s by bringing nudity into living rooms - or at
least sock drawers - all over America said that starting in
March it will still feature women in provocative poses, but
they will no longer be fully nude.
In a way, Playboy may be a victim of some of the forces it
helped unleash. Porn in full color and high definition is now
widely available over the Internet.
"You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable
for free. And so it's just passé at this juncture," Playboy
Enterprises chief executive Scott Flanders told The New York
Times.
The change represents a major shift for the magazine, which
broke new ground when Hugh Hefner created it and featured
Marilyn Monroe on its debut cover in 1953. It marks the latest
step away from depictions of full nudity, which were banned
from the magazine's website in August 2014.
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