Playboy Enters The Digital Age
After 57 years of printing glossy page magazine enjoyed by many (men and boys) around the world, Playboy has decided to put every single one of their issues on the internet for all to enjoy. That’s 682 issues! So if you had a favourite issue growing up that your parents found and threw away, or if your stack hidden under your mattress had to go when you left for college, you’re in luck. These soft-core porn mags are all available on i.playboy.com. All you need to do is subscribe and you will gain access to view every single page of every single magazine.
Over the years, readership of Playboy magazine has greatly pummetted. Recently, the company has been trying all sorts of gimmicks to attract new readers like including #D glasses for their centerfolds, and even putting Marge Simpson on the cover to attract a new audience fan base.
The magazine wasn’t all free sex pictures, and it did in fact provide for a good read. Some of the articles over the years included interviews with John Lennon, Jimmy Carter and Dr. Martin Luther King. All of these articles will be available online as well. This new website offers a way to look at the works of such writers as John Updike, Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson and Norman Mailer just by searching for their names.
Subscription to this new Playboy site costs $8.00 a month or $60.00 a year. The service is meant to appeal to the sense of collective nostalgia and affinity. There are some doubtful thinkers however, stating that the Playboy of today is not the same powerful sex-driven, literature-packed mag that it used to be in the 50s and 60s. Many people believe the skin mag has lost its lead and this is due to the over-sexualized society we live in. It is no longer a shock or taboo thing to see topless or naked women. We can indeed picture the girl next door naked, we don’t need the help of Playboy.
Will this new website take off? Only time will tell.
