Image copyright Getty Head Office of the American erotic magazine Playboy announced the refusal of photographs full of naked women from March next year. The decision in the version associated with the policy of one of the editors of Cory Jones.
New features have been approved 89-year-old founder of the magazine Hugh Heffner.
The American owners of publications believe that the Internet has made nudity accessible to all and therefore uninteresting, and pornographic magazines can no longer be commercially viable.
Chief Editor of Playboy Russia Vlad Kovleysky noted that they did not have meetings with the Central Bureau and advised to follow the news.
“I do know the same information as you. We have and so the magazine is much more sober,” – said Kovleysky BBC Russian Service.
The head of the Ukrainian edition of Playboy Vladislav Ivanenko agree with the Moscow colleagues on the issue of chastity Eastern versions with respect to the North American original source.
“They make restyling. nudity will be modified, but is unlikely to go away completely. They simply have a new director of creative ideas,” – said Ivanenko in an interview with the BBC Russian Service.
Earlier “Facebook” editor in chief of Playboy Ukraine wrote in a commentary that nothing is going to change.
The Russian edition was established in 1995, Ukrainian – from 2005. Worldwide out 29 versions of the magazine.
“that they should not leave”
Playboy was a pioneer among the magazines, starting in the mid-twentieth century to publish nude photos.
In the 70s – 20 years after its foundation – it sold a circulation of 5.6 million copies, and is now a print run of 800,000.
The images of nudity previously disappeared from the site of the magazine – this has been done, including in order to gain access to social networks.
” Everyone is now at a distance of only a single click from any image of free sex. So at this point it [the publication of photos of naked women] out of date “, – said the head of Playboy Scott Flanders.
After the” pilot “of the ban on pictures of naked women in August last year the number of visitors has increased fourfold, and the average age of readers of the magazine fell from 47 to 30 years.
At the same time, Playboy says he does not intend to abandon the “outspoken female poses”.
The editors argue that they will continue publish serious investigative reporting and interviews, like those correspondents Playboy took from Vladimir Nabokov, Martin Luther King Jr. and Jimmy Carter.
“Without a Sudoku is not the”
Many of the commentators on social networks perceived demarche magazine as “the era of care”
“No more nudity? This is not the Playboy for me, “- says Carlos Samuels and gets 190 likes.
” There will be no Sudoku – do not open “, – writes the commentator Sergei Kolotovkin.
” Some were half-closed Age and public bodies for the success of this still would not be enough. Playboy was the meeting of the thoughts that made any man to gather additionally itself points in every sense, from the manner of wearing neckerchief or chest and ending discussions of progressive writers, interviewed presidents, tyrants and dissidents and artwork extravagant artists “- sings magazine ode to a former employee Ukrainian edition of Playboy Vlad Fisun.
World trend?
It may well be that in the changes at the Playboy is the trend in August about getting rid of naked girls on Cover announced Editorial Maxim. In addition, from October ceases to expose their models erotic calendar Pirelli.
So far from “men’s magazines” pictures of erotic content will continue to publish Penthouse, FHM and the Moulin Rouge.
Earlier, the chief editor of the Russian Maxim Alexander Malenkov in an interview with “Kommersant” has expressed unwillingness to give up nude image, as it did in the American edition.
“We are not obliged to follow it – in Russia’s Maxim of these changes is not, we women are charged a certain coquetry and playfulness. Last similarity is between us now was lost completely. We can assume that these are two different magazine is now “, – he said in the summer of Malenkov.
Activities Hugh Hefner regularly evoked protests of feminists, in particular, the organization Object, and UK Feminista.
Back in 1960 is one of the pioneers of feminist Gloria Steinem got in Playboy House, to later write an article about the life of “girl-rabbit”.
The article itself, published in 1963, was a very detailed report on the internal functioning of Playboy and pay the girls who worked hostesses for customers club in New York.
It Stein disclose the difficult working conditions and challenges women to produce the promised wages, as well as difficult attempts to fend off harassment of clients.
After a half-century feminist noted that the experience at the Playboy was her ordeal, which she felt how humiliating was the fact that it is perceived only as a sex object.
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