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Clark: Playboy without nudes?! Inconceivable

In this April 5, 2007, file photo, Playboy Enterprises founder Hugh Hefner poses with a copy of Playboy magazine featuring Anna Nicole Smith as Playmate of the Year, at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles. The magazine that helped usher in the sexual revolution in the 1950s and '60s by bringing nudity into America's living rooms announced this week that it will no longer run photos of completely naked women. Starting in March, 2016, Playboy's print edition will still feature women in provocative poses, but they will no longer be fully nude. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354
In this April 5, 2007, file photo, Playboy Enterprises founder Hugh Hefner poses with a copy of Playboy magazine featuring Anna Nicole Smith as Playmate of the Year, at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles. The magazine that helped usher in the sexual revolution in the 1950s and '60s by bringing nudity into America's living rooms announced this week that it will no longer run photos of completely naked women. Starting in March, 2016, Playboy's print edition will still feature women in provocative poses, but they will no longer be fully nude. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
In this April 5, 2007, file photo, Playboy Enterprises founder Hugh Hefner poses with a copy of Playboy magazine featuring Anna Nicole Smith as Playmate of the Year, at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles. The magazine that helped usher in the sexual revolution in the 1950s and '60s by bringing nudity into America's living rooms announced this week that it will no longer run photos of completely naked women. Starting in March, 2016, Playboy's print edition will still feature women in provocative poses, but they will no longer be fully nude. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Every now and then there’ll be a moment in the culture that will stop you in your tracks. Johnny Carson’s last “Tonight Show,” for example. The death of Michael Jackson. And another bombshell rocked the Kasbah on Monday with the following news: Playboy magazine will no longer publish nude photos. What? This couldn’t be more shocking, especially to aging male members of my baby boomer generation. With its centerfold and bawdy cartoons, Playboy provided titillation both real and imagined for a curious legion of adolescent lads. Hugh Hefner claimed he created the magazine as a reaction against the repressive values of the 1950s and blah, blah, blah. Teens of my era didn’t know anything about such sociological mumbo jumbo. The juvenile whisper campaign was focused on only one thing/ Doug Clark , SR. More here.

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