<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Ah, the old school-days memories . . . of sneaking off to the bathroom with my dad's Playboy magazine.</div><div><br></div><div>I guess that I'll hafta start readin' the articles now, huh?</div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of USA Today at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/10/13/playboy-magazine-nude-pictures-internet-porn/73856022/">http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/10/13/playboy-magazine-nude-pictures-internet-porn/73856022/</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 32px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><b>'Playboy' to stop publishing nude photos</b></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 32px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Opening a copy of Playboy magazine on an airplane or at a hair salon may no longer have people raising their eyebrows.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Playboy will no longer publish images of fully nude women in its magazine beginning this spring. The move comes as part of a redesign that will be unveiled next March, </span><a href="http://iprnewswire.com/press-release-playboy-takes-next-step-in-major-brand-re-alignment-with-transformative-changes-to-its-flagship-magazine/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none;">Playboy Enterprises, Inc., announced Tuesday. </a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The magazine will still feature women in provocative poses, but they will no longer bare all when the March issue is released in February, </span><a href="http://www.playboy.com/articles/no-nudity-announcement?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=social&utm_content=sexculture&utm_campaign=launchpost" data-uotrack="storyinlinelink" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none;">according to a statement from Playboy.</a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The onslaught of </span><culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Internet pornography" title="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 161, 52) !important;">Internet pornography</culink><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">has made the nude images in Playboy "passé,"</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Scott Flanders" title="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 161, 52) !important;">Scott Flanders</culink><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">, the company's chief executive, told</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/business/media/nudes-are-old-news-at-playboy.html?_r=0" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none;">the</a></span><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/business/media/nudes-are-old-news-at-playboy.html?_r=0" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none;"> New York Times.</a></em></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"That battle has been fought and won," Flanders told the newspaper. "You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The new Playboy will continue to aim for a target audience of millennials between the ages of 18 and 30-something.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The move to robe the magazine's</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Playmates" title="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 161, 52) !important;">Playmates</culink><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">is similar to Playboy's digital strategy over the last few years. I</span><a href="http://mashable.com/2013/04/02/playboy-iphone-app/#lc8KaJvKkqq." style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none;">n 2013, the Playboy app was touted </a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">as a more work-friendly version of the magazine with "best articles" and non-nude images. Likewise, a 2015 app implemented the same strategy with a mobile-first focus on the magazine's written content.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When <a href="http://playboy.com">Playboy.com</a> re-launched sans nudity in 2015, the</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="http://www.playboy.com/articles/no-nudity-announcement?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=social&utm_content=sexculture&utm_campaign=launchpost" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none;">publication said in a statement that</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"tens of millions of readers" continued to come to the "non-nude website and app every month for, yes, photos of beautiful women, but also for articles and videos from our humor, sex and culture ... sections." Since launching the new site, the median age of visitors has "shrunk from 47 to 30-years of age," according to the company.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While publishing has ebbed and flowed throughout the magazine's lifetime, as with most print publications numbers have steadily declined over the past few decades. According to</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Alliance for Audited Media" title="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 161, 52) !important;">Alliance for Audited Media</culink><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">, the magazine sold 5.6 million in 1975 and has dropped to about 800,000 today,</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/business/media/nudes-are-old-news-at-playboy.html?_r=0" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none;">the<em> Times </em>reported.</a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The first issue of Playboy </span><a href="http://www.playboyenterprises.com/about/history/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none;">was published in 1953, and featured Marilyn Monroe</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">on the cover. The centerfolds in the magazine have been a sort of rite-of-passage for many young men, and the company notes that it may be a "risk" to go "non-nude."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"This is a company ... that has risk in its DNA ... Our journalism, art, photos and fiction have challenged norms, defied expectations and set a new tone for decades. So we say: Why stop now," Playboy</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="http://www.playboy.com/articles/no-nudity-announcement?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=social&utm_content=sexculture&utm_campaign=launchpost" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none;">staff wrote in an online post. </a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On social media, many questioned the move away from publishing photos of nude women. Others, noted that those who have said they only read the magazine for "the articles," will now be telling the truth.</span></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>