Playboy:: Buying it for the Articles, Excuse Becomes Reality

This week the world was thrown into shock as it found the oldest Playboy excuse is soon to be become reality:

"Oh you found my Playboy. I buy it for the articles."

That's right, Playboy announced it will be having a change of direction (come March next year) and follow Tobias Fünke's lead into the world of never nudes. That's right, according to CEO, Scott Flanders, when you're "one click away from every sex act imaginable for free...it's just so passé..."


The irony is that the magazine that helped pioneer the sexual revolution is suffering from it's success. Or, it seems pornography may be suffering a reversal at the extremes (part of McLuhan's tetrad).

Tweet: With free pornography of extreme explicitness freely available across the internet, are we just stimulating men to impotence? http://ctt.ec/eUebl+

Perhaps McLuhan's March, 1969 feature article in Playboy should be included in the March 2016 edition.

What do you think? If Playboy's seeing the commercial impacts of ubiquitous pornography, are we just ignoring the social impacts? With much of the internet pornography depicting women as objects, often dominated and treated in sexually violent ways, should there be more noise on this in the current domestic violence conversation in Australia?