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RonTheLogician · 11-25-2015, 09:49 AM

Hey Dani,

It's no secret that with contemporary society's wide acceptance of erotic imagery and a virtually free method for publishing it (the Internet), for-profit erotic paper-based printing has gone into decline.

Recently, Playboy magazine, which pioneered mainstream acceptability of this artistic genre in America, announced that starting early in 2016, it would no longer publish (very) "nude" photographs of women. The New York Times writes about this here, saying:

[Playboy's] best-selling issue, in November of 1972, sold more than seven million copies... [but its] circulation has dropped from 5.6 million in 1975 to about 800,000 now... Many of the magazines that followed it have disappeared... In August of last year, its website dispensed with nudity. As a result... the average age of its reader dropped from 47 to just over 30, and its web traffic jumped to about 16 million from about four million unique users per month... There will still be a Playmate of the Month, but the pictures will be 'PG-13'...

Obviously, the change in editorial content will not address the problem all fixed media (books, music, films, etc.) suffer today because of the ease of making perfect copies of copyrighted material with practical impunity. But how interesting that by eliminating nudity, Playboy quadrupled website traffic.

What do you think about this development? Is it being discussed in the porn industry? Or is the whole thing a big non-event?

11-25-2015, 09:49 AM	#2220
RonTheLogician In Love with Danielle Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 189	What do you think of the Playboy redesign dropping nudes? Hey Dani, It's no secret that with contemporary society's wide acceptance of erotic imagery and a virtually free method for publishing it (the Internet), for-profit erotic paper-based printing has gone into decline. Recently, Playboy magazine, which pioneered mainstream acceptability of this artistic genre in America, announced that starting early in 2016, it would no longer publish (very) "nude" photographs of women. The New York Times writes about this here, saying: [Playboy's] best-selling issue, in November of 1972, sold more than seven million copies... [but its] circulation has dropped from 5.6 million in 1975 to about 800,000 now... Many of the magazines that followed it have disappeared... In August of last year, its website dispensed with nudity. As a result... the average age of its reader dropped from 47 to just over 30, and its web traffic jumped to about 16 million from about four million unique users per month... There will still be a Playmate of the Month, but the pictures will be 'PG-13'... Obviously, the change in editorial content will not address the problem all fixed media (books, music, films, etc.) suffer today because of the ease of making perfect copies of copyrighted material with practical impunity. But how interesting that by eliminating nudity, Playboy quadrupled website traffic. What do you think about this development? Is it being discussed in the porn industry? Or is the whole thing a big non-event?