Playboy Will No Longer Publish Nude Photos
Taking the starch out of its signature bunny ears,Playboywillno longer publish photos of fully n***d women in the very pages that propelledpornography into the mainstream 62 years ago.
But formerPlayboy Playmate Helena Antonaccio,Miss June 1969("Turn-ons: Long hair and sideburns"), says there"s still a market for the tasteful nudes that Playboy once pioneered. And she should know: At 66, she still poses for "artistic depictions of nudity"for subscribers toher eponymous website.
"I"m on Facebook, and people are just bombarding me now with emails," says Antonacci,a Morristown native. "Baby boomers are saying, "Oh, it"s so great, back then it wasn"t so trashy. It was classy." I think people are still looking for that."
Of the pictures themselves, she says: "It"s PG. I"m n**e, but there"s no sexually explicit pictures. It"s pin-up pictures."
It"s just t*****s then?
"And my a*s. But it"s very tasteful."
The magazine is following its digital strategy, which banished nudity from the non-subscription portion of its website last year, and saw the average age of its onlinereaders drop and web traffic quadruple.
The omnipresence of Internet p**n has made nudity in Playboy "just pass at this juncture," said the company"s chief executiveScott Flanders inan interview with The New York Times.
The March 2016 issue will be the first without nudity since Hugh Hefnerfounded the magazine in 1953.
Antonacci ended up in Playboy after a model booker rejected her from a wig assignment, saying she looked "too virginal." ("I"ll show them," she laughs, remembering her outrage. "I went to the Playboy Club and applied for a job, and a photographer asked me if I wanted to be the centerfold.) She reacted to the news of Playboy"s new no-n**e policy with something of a shrug:"I think change is always good."
The reaction on the Internet you know, the forumthat rendered Playboy"s jiggle essentially irrelevant was somewhere between righteous indignation and "Is Playboy still being published?"
Yet Pat Adamo (nee Russo), another Morristown native and Miss November 1965("Turn-offs:Dirty fingernails, pseudo-intellectuals, pick-up lines, loud people"), was glad to hear of Playboy"s decision.
Pat Adamo, a former Playboy Playmate, is happy to see nudes leave pages of Playboy.Facebook courtesy of Pat Adamo"Today"s Playboy was just nasty, women sitting with their crotches open to the camera," says Adamo, now 74. "That"s totally disgusting. You can"t call it anything but p*********y. It"s not artistic. Today it reveals a whole different way of looking at women that is not particularly flattering."
Adamo, a former assistant at Women"s Day magazine, had moved with her parents and young daughter to Florida but had trouble finding a decent-paying job. One day, she say an ad in the newspaper for a job that paid $200 a week. "I go to this place called the Playboy Club. The interviewer says, "I"d like you to try this costume on. Some fellas came in, managers or hirers, they hired me. I had no idea what I was being hired for."
But Adamo never mastered the "Bunny Dip" for which its cocktail waitresses were famed, so she became a "Door Bunny," collecting keys from members, and that"swhere she meta staff photographer who asked her if she would pose for the magazine. "But I don"t have b***s," she recalls telling him.
She eventually drifted away from modeling, focusing on singing and acting, and working as a teacher and a mental health counselor. Now retired, she lives in Titusville, Fla., and acts in local theater production and performs concerts (she"ll be at the Cocoa Village Playhouse with the Space Coast Singerson Nov. 2) and still autographs her Playboy photos that a middleman sells on eBay.
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Source: http://www.nj.com/entertainment/celebrities/index.ssf/2015/10/playboy_playmates_nude_photos_centerfold.html
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