This might come as a total shock, but people don’t read Playboy for the in-depth articles. (Hell, does anyone besides me still get magazine subscriptions?) The magazine is all about beautiful women, sex, and fantasy, but now they’re making a huge change to the iconic brand – they’re ending the publication of fully nude girls. In an interview with The New York Times, Playboy’s chief executive Scott Flanders made the decision with 89-year-old founder Hugh Hefner. The reasoning?Because nudity isn’t provocative anymore – in fact, it limits their audience. Thanks, Internet. Flanders said,
That battle has been fought and won. You’re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it’s just passé at this juncture.
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