Say it Ain't So--Playboy to Stop Publishing Nude Photos

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  1. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Bengal B, Oct 13, 2015
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    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    Saw that this morning. Meh, who cares. The chics were all airbrushed anyway and the print content sucked cause it was another liberal outlet. The jokes were pretty good, wonder if they will keep them but beings they were on the back page of the centerfold I wonder where they will relocate to? I read that circulation went from millions in their heyday to about 800k currently. I'm surprised they haven't closed the doors.
     
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  3. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    Whens the last time anyone saw an actual pb magazine.
     
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    Been a long time but it's the principle of it.
     
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    Good decision by them. You can't "outporn" pornhub and other online video sites so they decide to go the opposite direction and try to be more mainstream while keeping the brand name alive. I suspect the majority of their income is from licensing anyway so this is a way to hopefully keep that alive. The interviews have always been good in a bit of a refined howard stern sort of way so maybe they have something to offer.
     
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    Maybe. If their website is any indication, it's the right decision. But it may be the Kiss of Death for the print magazine, since the dinosaurs still which still have a subscription will likely cancel.
     
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    They can't survive with the subscription numbers they have so it's hard for it to be a kiss of death if they're already dead. It's more like using the paddles as a last ditch effort to save the magazine.
     
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  8. Bengal B

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    The print media in general is a dying industry. I still buy a newspaper every day but I have already seen most of the stories online the night before.
     
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    Well, they're not dead yet. That's why they're trying something radically different. But it's not about nudes/non-nudes, about the digital age and putting print media out to pasture.
     
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    Sometime in the 90's I saw one. I last bought one some time in the 70's. It's all about a snazzy Hefner-esque lifestyle that I don't give a rats ass about. There was always better porn, better articles, better everything elsewhere. The internet has made a lot of magazines irrelevant and Playboy is a prime example.

    Something in the 60's made that magazine click. It glamorized an upscale sordid self-indulgent lifestyle that had previously been thought to be decadent and sinful. But they tried to rebrand it as Playboy Clubs and that failed, then as a TV show that failed and a cable network that nobody pays for. Nobody wants to be Hefner anymore.
     
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