Playboy to ditch all-nude photos

(ANSA) - Rome, October 13 - 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.