62 years after Playboy published its first iconic issue featuring Marilyn Monroe, the famous magazine has announced that it will stop publishing nude photos of women. Though Playboy became a cultural institution partly because of its nude models and centerfolds that were once considered risqué, today the men’s magazine is ready to move on from naked bunnies in pursuit of a larger audience. Thankfully, they still plan on featuring gorgeous women in titillating spreads—but the women will no longer bare all for the cameras.
Playboy claims that because nudity is now so ubiquitous thanks to internet porn, the world no longer needs a magazine that showcases the female body. Playboy said, “You could argue that nudity is a distraction for us and actually shrinks our audience rather than expands it.” The magazine wants to return to its status as a respectable literary and cultural magazine, like in its heydey when it published interviews with folks like Martin Luther King Jr., and ran stories by Margaret Atwood and Norman Mailer. The website has been nudity-free for the last year, and has increased its users by four times since the switch. Looks like people will need to start actually reading Playboy “for the articles.”
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