Playboy will no longer publish photos of nude women as part of a redesign, the decades-old magazine announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The magazine will still feature women in provocative poses, but they will no longer be fully nude, Playboy said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The change, to take place in March, represents a major shift for the magazine, which broke new ground when Hugh Hefner created it and featured Marilyn Monroe on its debut cover in 1953. It marks the latest step away from depictions of full nudity, which were banned from the magazine\u2019s website in August 2014.<\/p>\n
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The magazine claims it website audience soared with that move, averaging a 400 percent increase in monthly unique visitors.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe political and sexual climate of 1953 \u2026 bears almost no resemblance to today,\u201d said Playboy Enterprises CEO Scott Flanders. \u201cWe are more free to express ourselves politically, sexually and culturally today, and that\u2019s in large part thanks to Hef\u2019s heroic mission to expand those freedoms.\u201d<\/p>\n
Officials acknowledge that Playboy has been witnessing widespread changes. \u201cYou\u2019re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it\u2019s just passe at this juncture,\u201d Flanders told The New York Times.<\/p>\n
Playboy editor Cory Jones recently contacted Hefner about dropping nude photos from the print edition and he agreed, the Times reported.<\/p>\n
Playboy\u2019s print circulation, once measured in millions, is now about 800,000, according to Alliance for Audited Media, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n
The shift from nudity will be accompanied by other changes in the magazine, including a slightly larger size and a heavier, higher quality of paper meant to give the magazine a more collectible feel.<\/p>\n
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