The issue also features an interview with actress Scarlett Johansson and pieces on actor Adam Scott and CNN host Van Jones for those who say they only read Playboy for the articles. Naked women are back in Playboy magazine, ending a year-old ban on the nudity that made the magazine famous. Playboy re-embraced nudity with an issue boasting several pictorial spreads of naked women, including Miss March, Elizabeth Elam, and Miss April, Nina Daniele. That challenge may fall largely on Cooper Hefner, 25, who replaced his 90-year-old father as Playboy‘s chief creative officer last summer. After the men’s lifestyle magazine stopped featuring nude pictorials in 2015, the nude shots are making a comeback with. "The people who grew up with Playboy magazine are starting to fade away so they will have to figure out what the millennial generation wants in the 21st century if they are going to survive," Husni said.
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Now that nudity is back in its fold, Playboy is still going to have to figure out how to appeal to a younger audience that has grown up in a digitally driven age where nudity has become commonplace. "They are always going to have the stereotype as a nude magazine." For the magazine’s first issue in 1953, its founder, Hugh Hefner, used a previously unpublished nude calendar photograph of Marilyn Monroe, who also appeared (in clothing) on the cover. "Playboy and the idea of non-nudity is sort of an oxymoron," said Husni, a journalism professor at the University of Mississippi. Playboy, American magazine aimed at men, the first to present female nudity and sexually oriented material in a relatively sophisticated format. Magazine expert Samir Husni said the prohibition on nudity probably alienated far more readers than it attracted. In a lengthier editors letter posted on, Hefner details his fathers role in Americas sexual revolution before seemingly equating the magazines celebration of nudity to other cultural norms being threatened in the modern climate, like religious tolerance, healthcare rights, and preserving the First Amendment. "Today we’re taking our identity back and reclaiming who we are." "Nudity was never the problem because nudity isn‘t a problem," Cooper Hefner wrote.
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The decision to show less skin was made under the regime of Playboy Enterprises CEO Scott Flanders, who left the Los Angeles company last May to run eHealth Inc., a health insurance exchange.Ĭooper Hefner, Playboy’s chief creative officer and the son of magazine founder Hugh Hefner, called the nudity ban a mistake Monday in a post on his Twitter account. The 63-year-old magazine had banished naked women from its print edition because it felt the content had become passe in an era of online porn that is just a click away on personal computers and smartphones. Say hello to Caitlin McSwain, a pert brunette from Texarkana, Texas. The about-face came Monday with the release of Playboy‘s March-April issue. This is the newest Playboy gallery from sexy blonde and all natural nude model. Playboy celebrated the reversal on Twitter and Facebook with the hashtag (hash)NakedIsNormal.