Playboy magazine has announced that it will no longer publish photographs of fully nude women. The magazine is undergoing a redesign – which will be released in March 2016. Playboy’s chief executive Scott Flanders told The New York Times, “The onslaught of Internet pornography has made the nude images in Playboy ‘passe’.”
The purpose of the redesign is to continue to win the hearts and eyes of millennials – readers between the ages of 18 and 30-something who like to read/browse at work. In 1975, the magazine sold 5.6 million in a year. Today circulation of the printed magazine is about 800,000. The Playboy app, which was released in 2013 does not include nude images.
