--- title: After 62 Years, Playboy Will Stop Publishing Naked Pictures description: 'Playboy' executives say the Internet has satiated the demand for the printing of explicit images that made the magazine famous canonical: https://time.com/4070955/playboy-nude-naked-photos-redesign/ author: Nash Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-13T04:17:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:44:09.067Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: After 62 Years, Playboy Will Stop Publishing Naked Pictures og:description: A major redesign will present a sleeker, less explicit magazine next spring. og:url: https://time.com/4070955/playboy-nude-naked-photos-redesign/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5059669f94b39e0/698867ff0a4a2202209c6882/gettyimages-93013926.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Playboy Enterprises Inc. In Talks To Sell og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: After 62 Years, Playboy Will Stop Publishing Naked Pictures twitter:description: A major redesign will present a sleeker, less explicit magazine next spring. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5059669f94b39e0/698867ff0a4a2202209c6882/gettyimages-93013926.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # After 62 Years, _Playboy_ Will Stop Publishing Naked Pictures by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Oct 13, 2015 4:17 AM UTC  Playboy magazines are displayed on a news stand in New York City on Nov. 12, 2009 Playboy magazines are displayed on a news stand in New York City on Nov. 12, 2009Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Oct 13, 2015 4:17 AM UTC _Playboy_, the lifestyle magazine that for more than six decades has both cornered and revolutionized the American market for prurience, will stop publishing the photographs of nude women that made it famous, the [New York _Times_ reported](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/business/media/nudes-are-old-news-at-playboy.html). The _Times_ story recounts a meeting last month between Hugh Hefner, _Playboy_’s iconically robed 89-year-old founder, and Cory Jones, the company’s chief content officer, where the two agreed that the era of printed erotica — which the magazine effectively created — had ended. A massive redesign next March will introduce a sleeker publication that will continue to hone in on sex and feature titillating photos of women, but the women will not be naked. The consensus among _Playboy_ executives is that the Internet has satiated the demand for the printing of explicit images. “That battle has been fought and won,” Scott Flanders, _Playboy_’s CEO, told the _Times_. “You’re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it’s just passé at this juncture.” The _Times_ reports that _Playboy_’s print circulation currently sits at around 800,000, compared to 5.6 million four decades ago. The U.S. print edition loses around $3 million a year. Its rebranding intends to target a fresher, younger — but still male — audience, one that appreciates not just the suggestive photographs but also the magazine’s tradition of literary journalism and fiction. Past contributors include the novelist Vladimir Nabokov, the media theorist Marshall McLuhan, and the celebrated multidisciplinary writer Norman Mailer. \[[_NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/business/media/nudes-are-old-news-at-playboy.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4070955/playboy-nude-naked-photos-redesign/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4070955/playboy-nude-naked-photos-redesign/"},"headline":"After 62 Years, Playboy Will Stop Publishing Naked Pictures","datePublished":"2015-10-13T04:17:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:44:09.067Z","description":"A major redesign will present a sleeker, less explicit magazine next spring","url":"https://time.com/4070955/playboy-nude-naked-photos-redesign/","keywords":["Pop Culture","Business topic","Journalism","magazines","Playboy"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5059669f94b39e0/698867ff0a4a2202209c6882/gettyimages-93013926.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5059669f94b39e0/698867ff0a4a2202209c6882/gettyimages-93013926.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Playboy Enterprises Inc. 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