Friday marks the final issue of Playboy containing images of naked women.
The magazine chose Pamela Anderson to be the last naked cover model, announcing on its website in early December: “To close out this era in the magazine’s history, it only made sense to put the most famous Playmate in Playboy history on the cover: Pamela Anderson.”
In October, the magazine announced that, after 62 years, it would stop publishing nude photos. “That battle has been fought and won,” Scott Flanders, Playboy’s CEO, told the New York Times about how the Internet contributed to the decision. “You’re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it’s just passé at this juncture.”
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