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Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
October 13, 2015 at 4:19 am
This seems like a strange way for playboy to go.
Like a knitting magazine suddenly refusing to show any knitting or a Daily Mail edition without any hateful immigrant bashing bile.
Playboy sans masturbatory images, what is it for now, discuss.
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RE: Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
October 13, 2015 at 4:55 am
Wow. Now blokes who claim 'I read it for the articles' won't be pathetic liars that fool no one.
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RE: Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
October 13, 2015 at 5:04 am
Ancient, obscelescent medium finally admits internet exists and has decided to change a good decade or so late.
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RE: Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
October 13, 2015 at 5:20 am
Not sure how they will fare. It's on the same lines as the Hustler or Penthouse suddenly deciding on serious journalism. There's certainly no shortage of lifestyle magazines on the market and I can't imagine Playboy being bought for that. To me, it seems, as if they're swapping a shrinking audience for a non existing one.
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RE: Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
October 13, 2015 at 5:23 am
I can understand the thinking, sort of, but I'm not sure they have a meaningful plan here to deal with the situation. Perhaps the better plan would be to fold.
I think the way to compete with internet porn, if there is one, is to focus on being erotic rather than explicit.
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RE: Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
October 13, 2015 at 5:59 am
Yeah. The assumption that there is a profitable alternative direction may be flawed.
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RE: Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
October 13, 2015 at 8:42 am
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?
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RE: Playboy to stop showing pictures of naked women
October 13, 2015 at 8:45 am
My youth is now officially dead.
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