Playboy magazine will cease carried photographs of naked women

Founder and chief editor Hugh Hefner has approved the proposal of the editor Cory Jones to stop displaying pictures of naked women. (AP)

Playboy magazine will stop loading of photos of naked women on the grounds of the internet has made the nudity became commonplace and pornographic magazines are no longer profitable commercially.



The decision was announced Director of Playboy Enterprise, Scott Flanders in an article in the New York Times on Monday (12/10), as quoted by Reuters news agency.

Founder and chief editor Hugh Hefner has approved the proposal of the editor Cory Jones to stop displaying pictures of naked women.

Photographs of naked women on its website have also been removed for the sake of waging access to social media such as Facebook and Twitter.

Scott Flanders, the director of Playboy Enterprise, told the Times: "Now you only need one click to find anything related to sex as you imagine it for free. The usual things today. "

Playboy magazine's circulation has fallen from 5.6 million copies in the mid-1970s to around 800,000 today.

Criticized feminists

After experiencing success when first published in 1953, the magazine was attacked by right-wing political groups and left wing.

Feminist groups also criticized him by saying that Playboy was degrading women into mere sex objects.

Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy who is now 89 years old, has approved the decision to no longer carry pictures of naked women on magazine pages. (Getty)

At any rate the extent to which the change was made is still being debated, including whether they will still display pictures of girls in the central courtyard.

Editor Cory Jones told the Times that the sex column in Playboy will be entrusted to a woman, who calls will write about sex enthusiastically.

On the other hand, Playboy also always had a fascination intellectual for the adam who admitted buying the magazine is not just to see the pictures, because they also contain arrangements work top authors such as Kurt Vonnegut, Joyce Carol Oates, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin and Alex Haley.

Depth interviews with historical figures Fidel Castro, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and John Lennon also commonly loaded.

(bbcindonesia)