Playboy is featuring naked women again

Who would have thought?

Duh.

Playboy was great back in the day, but really no longer serves a purpose.

I threw a few bucks Penthouse's way to see if I could help get their attention / drive the point home.

I think Playboy thought they could recapture Maxim Mag's early success (late'90s) with sexy, clothed models. 1. I think the world has changed moved on 2. Plus it is hard to monetize it with so much being offered by online sugar babies and models.

The plethora and accessibility of online porn has stolen all the excitement from soft and cool media like playboy. Naked, not naked, there's not much to be done that can save the beast.

It's not like anybody who bought the magazine ever read the articles. LOL

Yes it was bad when my Maxim was showing up showing more skin than Playboy... cancelled subscription..... may re-up again depending on what I see. Still want to be able to take a girlie mag in the bathroom; it's just the way I was potty trained after all...

Every year this online magazine distribution company offered crazy Black Friday deals - I think I bought Playboy for $3.65 a year for 4 years (the max they'd allow a subscription). I think I renewed it once or twice.

Anyway there's a stack of magazines in my office most with the plastic still on them. Since I'm a perv, once they stopped with the nudity I lost interest. Playboy always did have some good articles though. GQ and Playboy have the best articles of any men's magazines In my opinion.

I honk they went non nude to get distribution in places they normally wouldn't - like a grocery store, but t apparently didn't work

back before internet porn was so easily accessible like it is today, i use to have about a dozen different playboy magazines. and the majority of them were the special edition ones that had pretty much all pictures and very little to no words. but then one day, about a year or two, i threw all of them out in a trash can in front of a dry cleaners. i hadn't viewed them in ages and just had no use for them anymore

The advent of being able to watch video, instead of pictures, and being able to view video on your phone has effectively killed magazines like playboy.

I think the last time I viewed any girly magazine was probably back in 1986 when a copy would occasionally show up around the office.

Please tell me Playgirl is making a comeback also!!!

Asking for a friend.

They did a 'Girls of the ACC' maybe 10 years ago and I bought a copy out of curiosity. I haven't bought one since and doubt I ever will again.

What if they did a Girls of Walmart edition?

Girls of Walmart: buzzscoops.com

Here's the real people of Walmart r.search.yahoo.com

Come on people! Bottom pic blonde appears to be pushing a Target cart. buzzscoops.com

^^Hefner is in great shape I ran into him at a strip club promotion a few months back he seems sharp enough and is fairly limber for a man close to or past 90.

^^ maybe so but he had a pretty hot broad escorting him around. Actually that was how I met him I was not at the club but at a car wash and this broad and I had a bit of an I know you from somewhere convo, long story short he came out of the establishment she introduced me he actually remembered me from 30 years ago when I and a friend of mine used to hit the playboy club in NYC occasionally as well as the Copa and other manhattan nitespots.

one of the articles I read said that subscription losses were greater than gains in advertising and newsstand sales. I canceled my subscription. Don't think I'll make the effort to go back.

The cartoons in Playboy were one of their best distractions. If they start putting real girls instead of surgically enhanced Barbies they might regain some lost market share.

Sex sales - no sex then no sales

But as others mentioned, Playboy's time, like a lot of print-media; seems to have come and gone

Playboy and Maxim both made disastrous decisions at about the same time. Playboy abandoned nudity and Maxim lost its sense of humor. Both ended up looking like GQ, which was always unreadable and unappealing to anyone with an once of testosterone in their bodies. Print magazines might survive if their editorial boards had any brains, but given what we have seen lately, they seem pretty much doomed.