“Playboy” no nude pictures – like “Yps” without Urzeitkrebse – SPIEGEL ONLINE

A “Playboy” without full-page glossy pictures of naked women? Would not that be like “Yps” without Urzeitkrebse or the “ADAC” without advertising for stairlifts? In this case, the magazine has acquired immortal contributions to the sexual liberation of the man from the aesthetic impositions of reality.

This is no joke. I stayed once in the village in Chiemgau in an old farm, in the son of the former family’s bedroom. Before going to sleep I took a leather-bound catechism from the shelf above the bed, and out fluttered yellowed paper. It had been carefully cut sometime in the sixties with the scissors from a product of the Munich “Abendzeitung”, where it probably went to the opening of an outdoor pool. On display were two coarse young women in bathing suits – a pathetic flickering light sexual interest. A single “Playboy” under the mattress would have lifted this conservative Catholic world completely upside down.

The German “Playboy” will indeed continue to appear with bare – as the core product of glossy erotic but was always the original that the suburban idylls of the USA frightened in their fifties: the first time the magazine was published in 1953 with a relatively chastise Sweetheart Of The Month. But all joy wants eternity and mainly more , which is why Bob Guccione in 1965 with pubic hair in “Penthouse” scored and publisher Hugh Hefner in 1974 the same was where the whole Geräkel had lead basically.

objects, but still luxurious objects

Meanwhile, bob up all of these once-proud greasy battleships of the Enlightenment and exploitation in Abwrackbecken. Supporting victims of Überbietungswettbewerbs which lies in the nature of things. On the Internet is actually every imaginable and unimaginable sexual act also available free of charge, you may not believe it. Almost one wishes back the time, because the “Playboy” his “hands” such as yachts or watches staged. As objects, but nevertheless luxurious objects – and not a doormat, or urinals.

would this perspective, the message is long overdue, the “Playboy” create from the naked, and thus its own brand essence. In fact, there is a cloaked as a tactical retreat PR coup, the journalistic perplexity is noted behind.

In times of feminist pornography and Indie Erotic the pores waxed women who invented the “Playboy” are (as well as the man who like to find horny), a onkeliger anachronism. And a Lady Gaga no longer has as yet Madonna “for the ‘Playboy’ off ‘, the twitters when needed simply their usual Selfies.

It’s just a coincidence that Hugh Hefner, 89, is not the only Lustgreis with Show pleasure is reduced. Announced until January newspaper mogul Rupert Murdoch (84) the abolition derPage Three girls who are but a little dated – while this country its hilarious side-1 Girl nevertheless postponed the “image” into the interior of the sheet.

So the question is not: “What remains when the naked are gone?” The question will be how the “Playboy” will avert the loss of his aesthetic and social significance with now just no longer completely naked women. Because provocative to the images remain of course, for whomever.

If things go well, the portraits of combat pilots, heart surgeons and nuclear physicists will adorn the walls of trailer. And next there is to see only silence Polish short films at Youporn.