Playboy to Drop Nudity as Internet Fills Demand

[RandySF]

Last month, Cory Jones, a top editor at Playboy, went to see its founder Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion.

In a wood-paneled dining room, with Picasso and de Kooning prints on the walls, Mr. Jones nervously presented a radical suggestion: the magazine, a leader of the revolution that helped take sex in America from furtive to ubiquitous, should stop publishing images of naked women.

Mr. Hefner, now 89, but still listed as editor in chief, agreed. As part of a redesign that will be unveiled next March, the print edition of Playboy will still feature women in provocative poses. But they will no longer be fully nude.

Its executives admit that Playboy has been overtaken by the changes it pioneered. “That battle has been fought and won,” said Scott Flanders, the company’s chief executive. “You’re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it’s just passé at this juncture.”


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/playboy-to-drop-nudity-as-internet-fills-demand/ar-AAfnWTw?li=BBgzzfc&ocid=mailsignout

[hunter]

1. Wants to be next to Cosmopolitan on the supermarket checkout stands, I suppose.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

6. They want to catch the Rolling Stone audience

I know one of their regular writers.

[JI7]

2. CNN says it might become more like maxim

[neverforget]

3. So now you really will read it for the articles

[We Want Bernie]

4. And the excuses will drop as the wife looks at the magazine and goes "Meh".

[ChisolmTrailDem]

10. I hope they become a journalistic powerhouse...even moreso than they already are. nt

[Renew Deal]

5. I thought this was going to be an Onion article.

But I guess it's not a bad idea.

[FrodosPet]

7. Men should keep their women covered, per Minister Farrakhan

We are all horndogs, incapable of self control.

Louis Farrakhan to Jay Z: ‘Keep Beyonce Covered Up, You’re Responsible’

http://theboombox.com/louis-farrakhan-to-jay-z-keep-beyonce-covered-up

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The Nation of Islam leader sat down for an interview with Hip Hop Since 1987 earlier this month to discuss many hot topics, one being Jay Z. According to Farrakhan, Hov is a “good manager” who should tell Beyonce to stay out of her famous bodysuits and fashion numbers since men can’t help but look in her direction. Instead, he wants to see the singer covered up.

“You have to educate the managers. Jay Z is a good man. Jay Z is a good manager. But now, your woman is on display. Do you want men looking at your woman, being tempted by your woman, to make advances at your woman?” Farrakhan said. He also went on to extend his advice to other notable black women in the music industry.

“Who wouldn’t want to be with Rihanna? Who wouldn’t want to be with Nicki Minaj? But you strip them then their body is being used as the tool of the degradation of a woman and the subjection of a man,” he continued,

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“Today you strip the woman of her clothes. How can a man think straight, looking at the beauty of Beyoncé?” Farrakhan shared. “Help us to be more sane. A man is made into a dog by a way a woman presents herself to a man. There ain’t no preacher out there that’s that holy that a woman can disrobe herself and a man can still think Bible, still think Quran. How do you rule a man? You rule him by the beauty of your body and the suggestion of sex. So when you strip a woman down, a man becomes a dog. You don’t make a man? You make him to treat you like an object of sex instead of the creative genius that you are.”

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[Iggo]

11. Sorry, Louis, but I don't own any women. (n/t)

[FrodosPet]

8. Minister Louis Farrakhan Talks Issues That Directly Effect The Black Community & More

[elehhhhna]

9. He's still a jackass.