Earlier this week, Playboy announced that it will cease publishing nude photos in response to the fact that there are roughly 400 bajilllion hours of hardcore pornography available for free online.
Hef and company rightly feel that heavily-airbrushed nudes of barely legal strivers and washed-up TV actresses just don’t carry much appeal in a world where HD videos of people acting out your most depraved fantasies are just a Google search away.
Many feel that the decision signifies the end of an era.
Others believe believe Playboy is joining the 21st Century much too late and has little chance of remaining relevant in a world where PG-13 men’s mags such as GQ, Esquire and Maxim are already coping with plummeting subscription rates.
Still others are eager to seize what may be their last chance to have their middle-aged boobs photoshopped by the best in the biz.
“There was nothing (in my photoshoot) I felt was too embarrassing, or gross, and nothing that I’m not proud of today. So it kind of breaks my heart that it’s the end of that era,” Jenny McCarthy said during her SiriusXM radio show.
“That we have to lose what I would consider very classy nudity in a magazine… In solidarity, I will be wearing my panties at half-mast… and have maybe one more for the road. I would be totally willing just to take it all off one more time, just to say I’ll be in the last one.”
Given that Jenny is one of the magazine’s most iconic centerfolds, a final photoshoot would be an appropriate way to end The Era of the Outdates Spank Mag.
Still, there’s an irony in hearing the woman who describes Mark Wahlberg’s penis in detail to anyone who will listen prattling on about “classy” nudity like she’s Donald Trump on Molly.
Speaking of TMI, Jenny went into significant detail in describing the state of her pubes on the occasion of her first shoot:
“When I did my test shoot there I had one uni-brow and a giant bush to my knees, and they were like, ‘You’re in! You’re a girl next door!"”
“They really capture that innocence in the women. There was nothing ever skanky about the photos, I never felt like I was posing in a way that would make my mom disown me.”
Yes, nudity in Playboy may be coming to an end, but you can take heart in the fact that Jenny McCarthy will probably never stop talking about her pubic hair…if that’s your thing.