Naked women from playboy

By Keith J. February 13, pm Updated February 13, pm. The move comes four months after Cooper Hefner, the son of founder Hugh Hefner and an outspoken critic of the move to ban nude models, was installed as chief creative officer last October. Issues published under the no-nudes policy featured both scantily clad models and could-be naked women with strategic parts of their body covered up. The new issue displays breasts and butts, but not full frontal nudity that had typified the earlier incarnation before the switch with the March issue a full year earlier.

The 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. Magazine expert Samir Husni said the prohibition on nudity probably alienated far more readers than it attracted. 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. Playboy re-embraced nudity with an issue boasting several pictorial spreads of naked women, including Miss March, Elizabeth Elam, and Miss April, Nina Daniele.

Playboy has shown a preview of the first "non-nude" edition of the year-old magazine founded by Hugh Hefner. It features centerfold Dree Hemingway, the great-granddaughter of novelist Ernest Hemingway. Nude awakening: naked womend return to the magazine next month. Playboy magazine is returning to its roots, bringing nudes back just a year after abandoning full frontal shots of women saying they had become outdated.

Playboy has gone back to basics in the latest attempt to make over the ailing magazine, restoring nudity to its pages a year after banishing naked women in an effort to boost advertising revenue. The short answer is: times change. Playboy with no nudes was an oxymoron. So this is a step in the right direction.