Playboy to stop featuring nude women

[planeterotica]

Playboy is just a victim of the internet and i doubt if not publishing naked females will help their flagging sales which have slumped the same as all top shelf mags have !

[Stripey]

Not really surprising. Even back in late-90s 'Playboy' was like 'GQ' with nude photoshoots, most of which were no more explict than 'Mayfair' ones had been 10-15 yesars before that. Nice and tasteful for those who were happy with that sort of this, but even at the time very tame compared, contemporary 'Mayfair', let alone the likes of 'Razzle' or 'Fiesta'.

I guess they've just decided to make it more of a upper-end lifestyle magazine than it always was. Technically this move should get it off the top-shelf, but I suspect that its firmly-establashed image as "porn" will mean that there will be people constantly complaining it shouldn't be next to 'GQ', 'Men's Health', etc. planeterotica wrote:

> Playboy is just a victim of the internet and i doubt if not
> publishing naked females will help their flagging sales which
> have slumped the same as all top shelf mags have !
>

[conrad125]

I couldn't agree more Stripey,it will always be considered 'pornographic' in it's attitude to women by the liberal media who will insists it remain on the top shelve.