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TheZookie007

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Re: Playboy no longer to feature nudes? MERGED
« Reply #30 on: October 17, 2015, 05:15:53 PM »
How about Wendy? About time she got the best photographers available.

Could you imagine that? (Although she was a Cyber Girl once, wasn't she? I know she's appeared on their site before in some capacity.)
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Re: Playboy getting rid of nudes ?
« Reply #31 on: October 18, 2015, 05:49:58 PM »
....rejoicing in the fullness thereof....

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Re: Playboy no longer to feature nudes? MERGED
« Reply #32 on: October 29, 2015, 07:18:30 PM »
 >:(
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Re: Playboy no longer to feature nudes? MERGED
« Reply #33 on: October 29, 2015, 07:48:57 PM »
Interesting opinion piece recently, I believe in The New York Times. I'll try to find and share it. It's by a longtime feminist, who pleads with Playboy to retain nudes.

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TheZookie007

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Re: Playboy no longer to feature nudes? MERGED
« Reply #34 on: November 01, 2015, 01:05:23 PM »
Interesting opinion piece recently, I believe in The New York Times. I'll try to find and share it. It's by a longtime feminist, who pleads with Playboy to retain nudes.


It's "Longing for the Innocence of Playboy" by Jennifer Weiner. An excerpt:

"I was thinking about my friend when I read the news that Playboy, the venerable purveyor of **29** interviews, literary fiction and female nudity, had decided to stop publishing pictures of naked ladies. “You’re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it’s just passé at this juncture,” said Scott Flanders, Playboy’s chief executive.

With a once-mighty circulation of 5.6 million now hovering around 800,000, Playboy has been left with no choice but to put on its big-girl panties and try to compete with other glossy lad mags and their versions of the Good Life.

Most men my age, sons of the 1960s and ’70s, have a Playboy story, whether it involved borrowing one of Dad’s copies or sneaking a peek at their local convenience store.

But we ladies grew up with Playboy, too....

Feminists hated Playboy, and its hard-core cousins. In 1983...Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin were arguing that pornography was not just offensive but was also a violation of women’s civil rights. Even if the stance made for strange bedfellows — sharing picket lines with Jerry Falwell and his cronies must have been weird — at least feminists agreed: Porn was bad. Until we didn’t, and it wasn’t.

Lucky me, this shift happened right around the time I started college, when sex-positive feminists — also known as “do-me feminists,” early prototypes of Gillian Flynn’s Cool Girls — were down with the nudity, with accompanying boyfriends to strip clubs and with treating porn as if it were no big deal. Playboy seemed sweetly antique as we explored the work of Annie Sprinkle, Susie Bright and Candida Royalle, and began taking responsibility for our own pleasure, which was not always easy in the pre-Internet age. (I look forward to explaining to future great-grandkids how, when I was young, you couldn’t order your vibrators on the Internet, you had to actually walk into a store and buy them.)

It was confusing — especially when Hef stepped back and his daughter, Christie Hefner, took the reins of Playboy Enterprises. Can a magazine exploit women if it’s a woman doing the alleged exploiting? What did a real feminist look like? What did she do in bed? Was she a cheerful, dirty-movie-watching, beer-guzzling participant in any act, no matter how outrageous, as long as it was an act of her choosing? Or did she reject the old poses and standards and acts as the artifacts of a system that was never centered on female desire and never had her interests or her satisfaction at heart?...

Right now, I’ve got parental blockers on their phones and laptop . I monitor their TV and movies. I explain that sex is the ultimate expression of love and intimacy between two consenting and financially independent adults in their 30s.

Still, somewhere in my daughters’ future, there’s a Google search waiting, and it’s going to take them to places that Playboy and I never imagined. And so, as I stand on the precipice of my older daughter’s adolescence, I say something I never thought I’d say: Come back, Playboy, and bring your innocently naked ladies with you. All is forgiven."
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Re: Playboy no longer to feature nudes? MERGED
« Reply #35 on: December 04, 2015, 12:41:00 AM »
So who should be Playboy`s last centerfold?
It's Pam Anderson

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Robin_K2

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Re: Playboy no longer to feature nudes? MERGED
« Reply #36 on: December 04, 2015, 12:16:15 PM »

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Re: Playboy no longer to feature nudes? MERGED
« Reply #37 on: December 04, 2015, 12:58:19 PM »
It's Pam Anderson

I yawn at this cliché.

I guess they'd rather go out with a whimper than with a bang.

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Robin_K2

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Re: Playboy no longer to feature nudes? MERGED
« Reply #38 on: December 04, 2015, 01:43:51 PM »
I yawn at this cliché.

I guess they'd rather go out with a whimper than with a bang.


I just saw an article that said she'd be on the cover. I haven't seen anything on the Playmate. Anyway, what Pal said.

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Re: Playboy no longer to feature nudes? MERGED
« Reply #39 on: December 04, 2015, 04:40:44 PM »
There was a rumor that Tiffany Darwish was going to pose again at the age of 44 - I'd like to have seen that, er them, er, those unleashed...


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Re: Playboy no longer to feature nudes? MERGED
« Reply #40 on: December 07, 2015, 07:05:13 PM »
"Playboy has revealed the final model who will pose nude in the magazine's legendary centerfold.

Kristy Garett, 26, has been selected to be Miss February 2016 - the last playmate to appear in the pages in the buff before Playboy's complete redesign come March.

Hugh Hefner's famed men's magazine announced in October that it would completely stop featuring pictures of naked women after more than 60 years in publication.

Garett, who will have a 12-page spread in the special January/February 2016 issue on sale next week, believes it could change her life.

'I was so proud to do Playboy,' she told the New York Daily News. 'This is history.'

'It's such a big deal. It's so iconic. Being the last nude Playmate makes me cry and feel happy inside.'

Playboy calls Garett, a 26-year-old Republic of Georgia native who can speak six languages, one of the more 'worldly' models to appear in its pages.
 
Garret now hopes to live in Los Angeles, and said she was influenced to pose for Playboy as part of her desire to settle in the USA.

'Playboy has a classic American story,' she said in an interview with Playboy.com. 'And I want to be a part of it. The lifestyle here, where you're free to express yourself, is my type of life. I am proud of the woman I am and have always dreamed of being talked about because of that.'

Playboy editorial director Jason Buhrmester said Garett represents Playboy's evolution over the last 60 years.

'She's international, she's a model, but she still looks approachable,' he told the New York Daily News...

And although she may be it's last naked centerfold, Garett believes the magazine is making the right choice.

'After more than 60 years, of course they know what they're doing,' she said. 'Even if the models are not nude anymore, they're still sexy.'

Playboy said the magazine, which published its first nude centerfold in 1953, will still feature pictures of models in 'provocative poses' in issues that will be larger in size and on higher quality paper.

The announcement of Miss February 2016 came just days after Pamela Anderson revealed she would appear on the issue's final nude cover."




No tits, barely an ass, generic blonde Euro chick. Talk about going out with a bang...NOT.
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Re: Playboy no longer to feature nudes? MERGED
« Reply #41 on: December 12, 2015, 02:57:28 PM »
I received my Jan./Feb. issue today. It has two centerfolds, both pretty boring. As for the rest of the magazine, flipping through the pages I see only one cartoon with nudes. (I was wondering what would happen to those.) Bobby London's "Dirty Duck" comic strip is gone. Damn it, that was my favorite part!

The idiot columns still remain. Except for the Advisor column, they've been out of touch for years. Nudes have been the least of Playboy's problems in attracting a mass audience for at least a decade.

New Coke, anyone?

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Re: Playboy no longer to feature nudes? MERGED
« Reply #42 on: February 13, 2017, 07:55:06 PM »
NY Post today says that Playboy will be bringing back topless women as of the March/April issue. No public areas, however. Also, the management team that instigated this idiot "New Coke"-style change is gone; fired or resigned. Good riddance. We'll see if the magazine can turn around the pending failure they instigated.

No word so far about returning cartoons, too.

Apparently many (such as myself) cancelled subscriptions. It wasn't just the pix, but the newly-vapid writing. As for photos, the recent run seems to have focused on a combination of waif and grunge; sort of an opiod-addict look.

Jesus. With the success of "Mad Men," hipsterism and "mid-century modern," don't they realize they're sitting on a goldmine? Go back to bunny suits, cocktails and all that!

No-nudes were apparently not good news at Playboy magazine.

The 63-year-old legendary men’s magazine is bringing back nude models in its upcoming issue — one year after banning naked photos in an effort to boost circulation and attract more mainstream advertisers.

That effort obviously has failed.

The move comes four months after Cooper Hefner, the son of founder Hugh Hefner and an outspoken critic of the move to ban nude models, was installed as chief creative officer last October.

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Re: Playboy no longer to feature nudes? MERGED
« Reply #43 on: February 21, 2017, 12:18:29 AM »
Bring back the nudes (especially if they're natural, and more than just bottle blondes), bring back the cartoons (which were as good as The New Yorker's), bring back excellent writing (when people used to say they read it for the articles, many times they were telling the truth).

Let's hope it's not too late.
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Re: Playboy no longer to feature nudes? MERGED
« Reply #44 on: February 21, 2017, 06:57:08 AM »
Let's hope it's not too late.

Fingers crossed but I'm afraid that the present management may not have the talent to turn the ship around. Only time will tell.