Now readers of Playboy can honestly say that buy the magazine just because of the interviews. According to the New York Times, as of March 2016, the men’s magazine will stop publishing pictures of naked women.
The NYT report the source is the Chief Executive Officer Scott Flanders. According to him, the founder and editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner, 89, who entered the lifestyle of Playboy in her silk pajamas, agreed last month with a hint of chief editor, Cory Jones, to stop publishing of naked women pictures.
In a time when every teenager has a phone connected to the Internet and the web is full of pornography, magazine chose to continue presenting women in just sexy and provocative poses , not completely naked.
“You are now a click away from every imaginable sex act, for free,” said Flanders to the Times. “So at this point is just past.”
The magazine, which brought none other than Marilyn Monroe in his first cover in 1953, chose this change after the circulation drop of 5.6 million copies in 1975 to about 800,000 in 2015 . After its initial success, Playboy was (and still is) attacked because of nudity “indecent” and feminists who accused her of reducing women to sex objects.
Some changes are still under discussion, including maintaining or not a woman’s picture in central double page. The magazine sex columnist Playboy will be a woman, who writes passionately about sex, Jones told the Times.
The magazine has always had intellectual appeal and had great writers. Interviews with historical figures such as Fidel Castro , Martin Luther King Jr. , Malcolm X and John Lennon were also a regular feature.
“Do not get me wrong,” Jones said about the decision to remove pictures of naked women. “My 12 years side is very disappointed with my ‘I’ today. But it’s the right thing to do.”
In an article published on Tuesday (13) Playboy said more details on the change:
“The question that probably everyone is doing is Playboy has been a friend of nudity, and ‘Why?’. nudity has been a Playboy friend for decades A direct answer is.. times change [...] Yes, we are taking a risk by doing this, but this is a business – like all large companies that have ‘risk’ in their DNA. It was built when no one thought it would succeed, but now it is impossible (for us), imagine a world without Playboy. Our journalism, artwork and fiction have challenged the rules, defied expectations and now You need to establish a new tone “
Read the press release (in English) by clicking here.
In an interview with Zero Hora, the editor of Playboy Brazil, Sérgio Xavier, she said that at first, perhaps this change will not occur in Brazil. “I think it will have a certain orientation, in order to take” look, we are going down that road for these reasons, they do pro market towards you? If they make sense to come after us. “He said.
(With information from Reuters)
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