Even with the site having long-ago done away with explicit nudity, (there’s a “Girls” section that basically links to women’s social media with sexy pictures) it’s still blocked in many offices because of the reputation. They’re going to have a hard battle changing that rep.
I think there was a time Playboy supplied “exclusive” nude pictures of people (okay women) that you couldn’t see anywhere else. Now you can google them and see anything you want. Stars would get paid big money from Playboy for nude pictures, now they tweet nudes themselves.
Times have changed.
Damn internet.
Just ruining everything.
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I hate cell phones but I do like google.
So this is going to just add to the class wars of those with stuff (us) and those without (all those growing numbers of folk you see picking through dumpsters etc).
The rich (we have internet) get free porn, the poor can’t even pay for porn by saving up for a month of bottle cap collecting to get a magazine. Capitalism is cruel.
Remember that part in Iron Man, where Kramer yells “Sell, SELL! They’re a weapons factory… that’s stopped making weapons!!!”
That’s all I can think of now.
You don’t really need to be all that rich to have internet. And magazine porn still exists. I don’t see this adding to the class wars.
It’s in the interest of the rich to get internet to the rest of us anyway. They want to use it to make money off us.
Super rich old white guys probably still use ticker tape machines.
They probably have people who do the internet for them.
Jeeves, fetch me my laptop, with the finest Pornhub has to offer.
Who needs Playboy when girls on /r/gonewild give up the goods for free? It’s an endless parade of attention seekers. The Internet unleashed a monster a long time ago and Scylla is never going back in the cave. Hell, I can’t see how pay-for-porn exists at all when you have PornHub and it’s ilk. They are the Charybdis of porn, sucking everything down into their maw.
I subbed to Playboy for a few years for the articles. The T&A was a bonus. Every year had 2-3 good interviews and 2-3 good articles. Which isn’t a great ratio.
I unsubbed because I got sick of them photo shopping the living shit out of the models. At least once a year they put a very unattractive girl on the cover, too.
Fun fact - Playboy models don’t have anuses.
It almost doesn’t, actually. The only mainstream porn producers doing well are Manwin, because they run Pornhub and a bunch of other similar user-uploaded content porn sites, and they don’t allow their own content to be pirated there. The porno industry is hurting, bigtime.
The only clear path to making money creating porn right now is to go for the most bizarre fetishes, because they aren’t on the streaming sites and people into weird shit will pay for it.
So what’s the next clear money-maker in porn then? VR? or only until stereo cameras become cheap and mainstream? Or will the only moneymakers for VR porn be the hardware manufacturers for headsets?
I was just thinking how this shows the way things happen in cycles.
Playboy comes about at least in part to push the boundaries of what was acceptable. In effect, Playboy was designed specifically to be NSFW. Playboy was breaking out of that cage and running wild.
Decades pass.
Now Playboy is changing to be SFW. It turns out by breaking down the cage they have let ALL the animals out and the only way they can survive is by locking themselves back in the cage where it’s safe.
That picture is a rather well-known Photoshop job.
It’s unclear if VR will actually take off, although everybody wants it to work out. If so then yeah, I guess VR porn with haptic feedback dick-sheathes will be huge.
If you’re going into porn right now you need to explore the more “long tail” fetishes. Find an under-served market that doesn’t skirt the obscenity laws.
Ah, furries.
All this talk about VR porn and I’m reminded about that scene from Boogie Nights, where Jack Horner is lamenting the fact that you can’t make serious adult films with plots and stuff, because all the customer wants to do is ejaculate, and they’re done with the movie as soon as they’ve done that.
Or, that scene in American Pie where Jim is trying to jerk off to scrambled cable porn. Scrambled cable channels were damn near unwatchable, but teenagers didn’t give a shit. It got the job done.
VR porn seems to be a solution in need of a problem.
The main reason I don’t think VR, as we currently know it, will take off is it requires special equipment. One thing I’ve learned since my Atari days as a kid all the way up until now as an adult, special accessories in electronics that only serve one purpose are a niche item at best. If someone can walk into their living room and turn the VR on, that’s a hit. If someone has to walk into the living room, put on the VR gear and fire up the VR system, that’s a dealbreaker for most people.