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Far Cough 4:21 Tue Oct 13
FMOB, Playboy will no longer show images of naked women
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Playboy magazine is to stop publishing images of naked women as part of its redesign, it has emerged.
Its US owners say the internet has made nudity outdated, and pornographic magazines are no longer so commercially viable, the New York Times reports.
Playboy's circulation has dropped from 5.6 million in the 1970s to the current 800,000, official figures show.
However, the magazine will still feature women in provocative poses - though not fully nude.
'Battle won'
The decision was apparently taken last month at a meeting attended by Playboy founder and current editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner.
Magazine executives admitted that Playboy - which was founded in 1953 - had been overtaken by the changes it pioneered, according to the New York Times.
"That battle has been fought and won," Playboy chief executive Scott Flanders is quoted as saying by the newspaper.
"You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it's just passe at this juncture."
Gone, too, are the days when interviews with figures of the stature of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and Jimmy Carter made Playboy so culturally and politically significant, says the BBC's Nick Bryant in New York.
Playboy's website has already banished nudity, partly to give it access to social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. And its popularity has soared, with web traffic quadrupling.
A brand long synonymous with salaciousness is cleaning up its act, and all with the blessing - apparently - of the 89-year-old Mr Hefner, our correspondent adds.
*Picks up copy of Razzle and has a wank
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Hammer and Pickle
4:24 Tue Oct 13
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The news has FLASHED around the world.
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Coffee
4:27 Tue Oct 13
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Hammer and Pickle 4:24 Tue Oct 13
Are referring to EVERYTHING the OP wrote?
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Joke Royal
5:22 Tue Oct 13
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I'm more surprised that heff is 89
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Far Cough
5:23 Tue Oct 13
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Me too JR, I thought he was dead already
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Joke Royal
5:25 Tue Oct 13
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So for a long life you need an unlimited supply of 20 yo girls?
*books flight to Thailand
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Sir Alf
5:35 Tue Oct 13
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I'm outraged!!!
This goes against everything I have campaigned for in my life, 50 years of trying to lower the standards of common decency and this happens !!!!
Thanks to Tim Berners Lee though we have no worries. The human species journey to a state of total depravity is well on course.
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Eddie B
5:37 Tue Oct 13
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I do wonder if when Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet, if he had any idea just how much of it would be taken up by porn.
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Northern Sold
5:49 Tue Oct 13
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You have taken this news well Edward... I imagined you to be in bits?
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Eddie B
5:53 Tue Oct 13
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Well, maybe 15-20 years ago.
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Northern Sold
6:01 Tue Oct 13
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Still got the pamela Anderson somewhere at home... we all bought that one
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Eric Hitchmoe
6:27 Tue Oct 13
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Just amazed there are still 800,000 people still buying Playboy.
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Eddie B
6:31 Tue Oct 13
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Why would your self-respecting perve still buy a magazine?
And, no, I don't know.
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The Human Stain
6:55 Tue Oct 13
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well bugger me. where on earth am I going to find a picture of a naked women?
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BRANDED
7:17 Tue Oct 13
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This is terrible news
I'm jizz saying it like it is
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the coming of gary
7:18 Tue Oct 13
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what about MAYFAIR
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gph
8:40 Tue Oct 13
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800 000 people REALLY buy it for its celebrity interviews...
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Far Cough
8:51 Tue Oct 13
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That was always my excuse
*Cough
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stomper
1:19 Wed Oct 14
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What totally blew my mind when I heard this news today is they used to make a braille version.
A BRAILLE VERSION OF PLAYBOY! My mind is boggling as I type
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Alfs
1:32 Wed Oct 14
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The decision was taken last month by Playboy founder Hugh Hefner as he received under the desk felatio from Heather Cumming, a 17 year old wannabe from Tennessee. .
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Son of Anarchy
1:33 Wed Oct 14
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Hopefully they'll start showing pictures of naked men
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