What? No more full nudity in ‘Playboy,’ it’s passé

Photo: Playboy's 1953 debut, with Marilyn Monroe.
Photo: Playboy’s 1953 debut, with Marilyn Monroe.

By Ravi Somaiy | The New York Times

Last month, Cory Jones, a top editor at Playboy, went to see its founder Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion.

In a wood-paneled dining room, with Picasso and de Kooning prints on the walls, Mr. Jones nervously presented a radical suggestion: the magazine, a leader of the revolution that helped take sex in America from furtive to ubiquitous, should stop publishing images of naked women.

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