![]() But this isn’t because we’re all reading feminist zines on Tumblr now there’s no demand for them because too many people are watching free online porn instead.”īut it didn’t take long for Playboy to reverse its decision and return to its central nude features.Īs reported by the BBC in February 2017, “Playboy magazine has announced it is bringing back nudity, reversing a decision made last year. The free market argument that supported their continued existence turned on them. Playboy, acting as any business would, dropped the nudes because there’s no demand for them any more. But no-one should pretend that this is a moral victory. He continued, “The magazine becoming never-nude is heartening for anyone who cares about the media’s constant objectification of women. Playboy had helped swing the door wide open, and what followed was a flood of ever-degenerating filth, often at the primary expense of women.Īccordingly, Max Benwell’s article on the UK’s Independent site in was titled, “Why you should be worried about Playboy dropping naked women from its pages,” with the subtitle reading, “This isn't a clear moral victory, but yet another reminder of the huge power wielded by mainstream pornography.”īenwell noted that when Playboy dropped nudes from its website in August, 2015, that “caused its traffic to quadruple.” People were now drawn to the articles and not distracted by the relatively benign pictures. Pornography of the most sordid kind was freely available everywhere, so who needed pictures of nude women in Playboy? Porn was now ubiquitous. It was abandoning these pictorials because society had become so immoral that Playboy’s relatively mild pornography was no longer a draw. ![]() Playboy was not abandoning nude pictorials because society had become more moral. In a world like that, Playboy is redundant at best and embarrassing at worst.” And remember: it was a supporter of nude pictures who wrote this. we live in a world where all the world's porn is like three mouse clicks away, and most of it is totally free. But from the standpoint of moral values, this was actually bad news, not good news.Īs one supporter of nude photos explained, “. In my 2017 book Saving a Sick America, I noted that on October 12 and 13, 2015, the internet lit up with headlines: “'Playboy' to stop publishing nude photos” ( USA Today) “No more naked women in print Playboy” ( Business Insider) “Playboy magazine abandons nudity” ( Telegraph, UK) “Playboy magazine to stop publishing pictures of naked women” ( The Guardian).Īfter 62 years of featuring nudes, Playboy was no longer going to display pictures of naked women in its magazine. I wonder how all the hot-blooded, heterosexual male Playboy readers will fancy this bold new cover? ![]() It is the story of moral degeneration, from lewdness to perversion. In many ways, the story of Playboy Magazine is the story of the sexual revolution, from its first cover featuring Marilyn Monroe in 1953 to its current cover featuring a gay man dressed as a Playboy bunny. ![]()
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