NEW YORK (AP) — Playboy will no longer publish photos of nude women as part of a redesign, the decades-old magazine announced Tuesday.
The magazine will still feature women in provocative poses, but they will no longer be fully nude, Playboy said in a statement.
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he 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's website in August 2014.
he 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's website in August 2014.
The magazine claims it website audience soared with that move, averaging a 400 percent increase in monthly unique visitors.
"The political and sexual climate of 1953 ... bears almost no resemblance to today," said Playboy Enterprises CEO Scott Flanders. "We are more free to express ourselves politically, sexually and culturally today, and that's in large part thanks to Hef's heroic mission to expand those freedoms."
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