Playboy Magazine making a format change!
 

wow.

going PG-13!! apparently the first issue to come out, fully covered will be in March. this will be interesting. the magazine will be more like Esquire or something..
whatever.. the old playboy. only place i ever see it anymore is at the barber shop, and all my hair left me. :)

i cant think of the last time i ever looked into the pages of a Playboy. maybe, just maybe those "articles" will be the prime focus. :)

Does anyone actually still read Playboy?

I only read the Braille versions. The fold-out is spectacular!

The over-feminization of America continues.

Did anyone actually ever "read" Playboy? :D

....yeah, yeah, I seem to remember that it "did" have articles ;)

I remember being about 10 years old, and pouring through my dads piles of hot rod magazines, when I found some literature I had never seen before. My life was forever changed

800000 people are still subscribed per radio this morning... Apparently they gave up, as porn is available for free everywhere now and they cannot compete... Still, I don't think anyone who's into Esquire-type mags will be buying this because most people will *still* think you are reading a porn-mag, and you aren't... Won't work marketing wise...

They have always branded themselves as a "Life-Style" magazine, let's see if they really are.

I only get it for the articles!

But seriously... with the proliferation of porn, porn, and extra strength porn with a side of porn it is probably a smart move for playboy... they can't compete with the internet.

Back when I was a teen and snuck into my older brothers room to look at playboy... the girls were mostly wearing sexy see though nighties. Some of the sexiest stuff was... the cartons!

The Cubs in the playoffs, UT beats OU, ISIS... now this.:confused:

I had the exact same thought. If you read it in public, the average person will still peg you as a pervert. I think they should have tried to find a different niche, maybe a focus on quality vs the quantity that you'll find on the Internet.

I have always found Playboy to be intellectually stimulating...

I do...every month cover to cover. It is not pornographic. I will miss the ladies but hope the other content will remain relevant.

I think they are doomed. The younger generation seems to have no interest in reading.

They'll also never escape their past, so I wouldn't expect to see one sitting out in a medical waiting room, hair salon, etc.

I suppose the saving grace is that Hugh is now a couple hundred years old and won't need the income much longer.

JR

I would argue that it's not a younger generation that no longer reads, the reading is simply in an online format. Though it's not just the younger generation, when I travel I see far more people of all ages on Kindles and iPads than I do reading magazines while killing time at the airport. Playboy online really has nothing distinct to offer, there are many websites that offer good reading for free, along with all of the naked women you could ever wish for. Evolve or die, and I think their evolution is doomed to fail.

I was a little bit older when a friend of mine showed my a ragged copy of a Playboy he found in the field behind his house.

This was 1967/68 and after a quick scan the air seemed to smell a little cleaner, colors were a lot brighter, the future seemed clear.

And this was pre-topiary Playboy :D

Older people, and any people that read, may use new forms of delivering the printed word to their brains. That can be a matter of cost, or convenience.

What I am talking about are people that simply choose not to read literature of any kind. No book, no magazines, no newspapers, etc. They prefer to get their news and entertainment in a video format. Any reading is limited to texting and internet chat. My kids, their friends... People in their 20's, 30's... These are people that are successful in what they do, they just don't chose to read. The TV and cell phone are their new gods.

JR

So is the February (last nude) issue going to be a collector's item?

They are all collector items if you are an 11 year old male!

I never understood why guys collected the old back issues. Boxes of old mags that never get looked at and take up room. Seems like a waste. I guess it does capture a point in time for you and the pop culture but they are not like the the family photos you can put on the shelf and share with others.

Did every guy in college or high school really have a foldout hanging on the back of their door? Or was that just in the movies?