The world's most iconic male magazine, Playboy, has announced that it will no longer be publishing nude photos of women as part of a radical redesign. The decades-old magazine, which is credited as one of the most notable brands in the world, decided on the changes as a result of the proliferation of wanton sexual content online, according to The New York Times.
The change was the brainchild of Cory Jones, one of the top editors of the magazine, who got the green light from founder Hugh Hefner last month. The company's chief executive, Scott Flanders, states that the magazine has been overtaken by the very trends it had started.
"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," he said.
Playboy's print circulation, which was once measured in millions, has now dropped to just about 800,000. The magazine has attempted to revamp the brand recently, but the efforts have never quite succeeded, reports Fox News.
Though the magazine states that its print edition of Playboy will still feature women that are posed provocatively, it will no longer feature them fully in the nude. The changes are set to take place March of next year.
With the changes in the magazine however, numerous people are wondering: "If you take nudity out of Playboy, what will be left?"
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