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Playboy is returning to its original form. The magazine announced that nudity will, again, be featured on its pages – starting with the March/April 2017 issue, titled “Naked Is Normal.”
Chief Creative Officer Connor Hefner – the 25-year-old son of Hugh Hefner – tweeted,
“I’ll be the first to admit that the way in which the magazine portrayed nudity was dated, but removing it entirely was a mistake. Nudity was never the problem because nudity isn’t a problem. Today, we’re taking our identity back and reclaiming who we are.”
In fall 2015, then-Playboy CEO Scott Flanders announced that the magazine would no longer publish nude photoshoots of women. The new return to nudity won’t be quite as NSFW, though, with the March/April issue only displaying breasts and butts, according to the New York Post. Elizabeth Elam is the March/April cover star, which is on newsstands now.
