{"id":115365,"date":"2017-02-14T12:04:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T10:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=115365"},"modified":"2017-02-14T12:05:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T10:05:46","slug":"playboy-brings-back-naked-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/115365-playboy-brings-back-naked-models","title":{"rendered":"Playboy brings back naked models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playboy is featuring nude models in its magazine again, following a failed attempt to boost circulation by removing naked women.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2016, Playboy magazine stopped publishing nude photos after reaching an agreement with founder Hugh Hefner.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine continued to publish women in provocative poses, but they were no longer fully nude.<\/p>\n<p>Playboy CEO Scott Flanders said at the time that sexual images are freely available on the Internet and that the \u201cbattle has been fought and won\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward one year, and the experiment has failed. The March\/April issue of Playboy features Elizabeth Elam, with the headline \u201cNaked is normal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cooperhefner\" target=\"_blank\">Playboy\u2019s Chief Creative Officer Cooper Hefner, the son of Hugh Hefner, said<\/a><\/strong>: \u201cI will be the first to admit that the way in which the magazine portrayed nudity was dated, but removing it entirely was a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNudity was never the problem, because nudity isn\u2019t a problem. Today we\u2019re taking our identity back and reclaiming who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Playboy-Naked-is-normal.jpg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"78440107\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"slb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-198620\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Playboy-Naked-is-normal.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Playboy-Naked-is-normal.jpg 847w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Playboy-Naked-is-normal-331x400.jpg 331w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Playboy-Naked-is-normal-768x928.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Playboy-Naked-is-normal-356x430.jpg 356w\" alt=\"Playboy Naked is normal\" width=\"640\" height=\"774\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/198616-playboy-brings-back-nudes-because-naked-is-normal.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/141974-playboy-to-stop-publishing-nude-photos.html\">Playboy to stop publishing nude photos<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playboy is featuring nude models in its magazine again, following a failed attempt to boost circulation by removing naked women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":115367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23315,23577],"class_list":["post-115365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-naked","tag-playboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115369,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115365\/revisions\/115369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}