In March of 2016 Playboy will no
longer feature nude pictorials. I’m kinda sad about that. But in a way I kind
of understand why Hef and company are making the change.
Anyone can find pictures of naked
women everywhere these days, not just the internet. Regular women’s magazines
like Woman’s Day, Cosmopoplitan, Glamour, and Family Circle regularly feature pictures
of them. And almost every day I see on in a newspaper ad or an article with
some naked or half-naked woman selling everything from cereal to soap powder.
Nude women can be found on book
covers in paperback and hardcover. Heck, I’ve even featured them on book covers
myself.
Nude women are so prevalent in today’s
society that you can even them live and in person in Times Square. What was
once taboo is now mainstream. Why should a horny man buy Playboy for a picture
of a naked woman when he can see a picture of a bare body in any regular magazine
in a supermarket?
And women no longer need to aspire to
be Playmates in order to launch a modeling or acting career anymore. I know of
several models who post their own nude photographs on their official blogs and
official websites. No woman needs to be Miss March at Playboy when they can
launch their own brand with their own official website and their own
self-published calendars made with a POD company like CreateSpace, or Lulu and
other merchandise launched from Spreadshirt.com or Cafepress. And they can pay
for funding their projects with donations Gofundme.com and Patreon.
In today’s internet age Playboy found
itself played out of the adult entertainment business. No longer able to sell
with flash, now it has to focus on substance. And I’d have to say it’s a good
strategy. As a regular reader of Playboy back in the 1990s I can tell you the
articles are very well written. Yeah, they’re a little on the liberal side, but
the Playboy Journalism team is one of the best in the country from the articles
I’ve read. If the journalism team is given a chance to show what they’re made
of I believe the magazine could resurface as a competitior again on the level
of Time and Newsweek.
Unfortunately, washed up celebrities
are gonna have to find another venue to post nude photos to jump start their
dead careers.
But there’s a part of me that’s gonna
miss the Playboy Playmate Pictorials. Yeah, there are a bunch of pictures of naked
people on the Internets. But they weren’t as tasteful or as well done as Playboy.
I’ll say this about Playboy: Yeah,
they featured nude women in pictorials. But they were done with a fun artistic
flair that put a distinct style on the nudes they featured. Yeah, they were airbrushed
male sexual fantasies. But they were tastefully done with a unique balance of
art and sexuality that gave them a personality and spirit all they’re own. There
wasn’t anything like a Playboy nude in the world. That’ll be missed in today’s media.
Yeah, there’s a lot of nudity on the internet. But outside of
a few art photographers most of it is just uninspired pictures of naked people
trying too be hard to be sexy.
Unfortunately, many taking off their
clothes will never understand that sexy is something that comes from within and
radiates from the outside. Anyone can take a picture of themselves naked with a
cell phone or a video camera. But what makes a picture an artistic nude
requires a photographer to have skill to set a mood and a tone and make a model
comfortable enough to express their personality in a picture. A truly great
nude makes the viewer look at the model’s face, not their body. It takes vision
to create those kinds of images and more vision to appreciate them for the art
they are.
I’m sad to see Playboy end nudity in
their publications. But this change in direction could be the start of
something new and great for the magazine. If the journalism team can continue
to prouduce rock solid content on the regular this could be the start of a new
age for the magazine. If Hef and co focus on hard hitting journalism, Men’s
issues and topics related to MGTOW Playboy could be the magazine that men go to
for substantive articles instead of flashy pictures of half-naked women.
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