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Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
#11
RE: Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
(October 13, 2015 at 8:42 am)Brian37 Wrote: It's adapting. No way to compete with the amount of free porn on the net. It isn't becoming anti porn, just shifting focus. Will it work long term? Readership went up after the shift, but will it hold long term?

Well, that's short time curiosity. The question is, what are they reporting on now? What is their intended readership? What are they doing differently compared to the shitload of other magazines on the market?

In short, they said good bye to their old USP. But they have to have one. Otherwise it's a losing game in a very competitive market. Magazines don't live by being sold on the streets. The agencies have to see a reason to invest ad money.
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#12
RE: Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
(October 13, 2015 at 8:45 am)mh.brewer Wrote: My youth is now officially dead.

I know how to make it look like an accident, if you want.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#13
RE: Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
(October 13, 2015 at 9:43 am)Stimbo Wrote:
(October 13, 2015 at 8:45 am)mh.brewer Wrote: My youth is now officially dead.

I know how to make it look like an accident, if you want.
Actually can you take my youth death story to the science community so that they can come up with a youth resurrection formula? This way I can some day have an eternal blissful youth. This should be the science communities main goal.
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RE: Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
(October 13, 2015 at 4:55 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Wow.  Now blokes who claim 'I read it for the articles' won't be pathetic liars that fool no one.

Boru

Hey, now, issues 2, 3 and 4 I think contained the first printing of Fahrenheit 451, paid for with Bradbury's and Hefner's last dollars and creating 1) a lifelong friendship and 2) a titpic empire.  Now, sure, maybe it's been a little downhill from there, but...
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#15
RE: Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
I never read the articles which were mainly pretentious dreck.  Without the pictures it will be less entertaining that National Geographic.
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#16
RE: Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
(October 13, 2015 at 4:55 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Wow.  Now blokes who claim 'I read it for the articles' won't be pathetic liars that fool no one.

Boru

They would just be even more pathetic truth tellers.
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RE: Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
(October 13, 2015 at 11:08 am)Minimalist Wrote: I never read the articles which were mainly pretentious dreck.  Without the pictures it will be less entertaining that National Geographic.

National Geographic: what a joke.  As if you can buy a magazine with a reputation and transfer that cred to your religious obsession.
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#18
RE: Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
Next up:

Sex-less porn.
Honest political speech.
Mongoose and cobra call a truce.
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#19
RE: Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
(October 13, 2015 at 5:23 am)robvalue Wrote: I think the way to compete with internet porn, if there is one, is to focus on being erotic rather than explicit.

I always thought that that was Playboy's niche.

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#20
RE: Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
Playboy's decision only confirms the complete destruction of Western civilization. Although, I have to defend the written content. Back in the day, work by some of the best SF writers like Larry Niven first appeared in Playboy.
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