Playboy responding to a drop in circulation by taking naked women OUT of their magazine. What a world we live in. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/business/media/nudes-are-old-news-at-playboy.html?_r=0 When I was 12 and had the glorious discovery of my old man's collection never in a million years would I have guessed this day would come.
This makes sense. It's a good marketing move. It's probably been slowly in the works since Hustler went hardcore in magazines in the 80's. You have to do something to differentiate yourself to sell magazines these days. You have to be very good at something and Playboy has not been good at the thing we primarily associate them with, which is getting squirreled away under adolescent boys mattresses. They haven't been good at that for decades now.
I would've thought a magazine that combines literature, celebrity interviews, commentary, AND nude women would be something that is different. now they are a magazine that combines literature, celebrity interviews and commentary in a PG 13 platform. There are 1000s of those magazines. I fail to see how being like everyone else "differentiates" playboy
They're going to be like Evergreen in the 60's. An erotic mag that doesn't go full nude but combines all of the things in your description plus tasteful non-nude erotic poses. Nobody else is doing that from the Men's side of the business. They're trying to mirror Cosmopolitan but from the other side. It might work. If they turn into a Rolling Stone clone but with the erotic overtones they'll probably fail because Rolling Stone has the niche locked up for most of the content they'll be presenting aside from the erotica. This, btw, is probably what they should have done as soon as Hustler went hardcore. They already had Penthouse going edgier than them and they probably should have evolved in this direction 3 decades ago.
They're going after the Maxim audience now since anybody that wants to see women nude, even celebrities, can save money and do a Google search. Edit: speaking of celebrities, I watched Whiplash the other day and saw this cute girl named Melissa Benoist and googled her, found out she's in that new Supergirl show and also saw about 10 pictures of her getting boned in a hotel room.
I'll never forget the terror I felt as a kid when I realized the re-order insert to my fathers playboy magazine had fallen onto the kitchen floor when I snuck it to and from it's hiding spot while my parents were gone. My mother was talking to me and standing almost directly over it. Yikes.
make sense. Theres a shit load of porn out there. Wear some clothes and look sexy..http://gizmodo.com/playboy-is-now-pg-13-because-the-internet-has-enough-po-1736236097
Well... occasionally when I'm searching an actress, the word "nude" somehow ends up in my search terms. I chalk it up to autocorrect.
Nude shnood you said boned and I want boned! ;p Actually I'm probably lucky I didn't wind up on a cannibalism site now that I think about it.
