Playboy to stop publishing photos of naked women

 

Playboy, the adult magazine that launched in 1953 with a sultry Marilyn Monroe on its cover will stop publishing the photographs of the fully nude women so closely associated with it.

 

The decision came after a top editor of the magazine met with its founder Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion last month, according to chief executive Scott Flanders

Starting in March, Playboy's revamped print edition will still include photographs of women in provocative poses.
They just won't be nude anymore, Flanders told  adding that such pictures have become "passe" in the Internet age.
"You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it's just passe at this juncture," he said.
It's a remarkable move for a magazine that came onto the scene by breaking the taboo of showing women au naturel.