{"id":13164,"date":"2015-10-16T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13164"},"modified":"2015-10-16T08:19:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T12:19:28","slug":"playboys-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/playboys-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Playboy\u2019s Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/101615_1216_PlayboysLeg1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Playboy is going to become a PG-13 magazine, months after making the decision to reorient its website away from nudity. Alyssa Rosenberg noted that this was a good opportunity to examine the magazine&#8217;s legacy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saying that people only read the magazine for the articles has become the butt of many jokes. But the magazine has been responsible for many pieces of award winning journalism.<\/li>\n<li>Playboy provided men a new way to express masculinity. A man didn&#8217;t have to go hunting or score the winning touchdown. A man could be indoors, mix cocktails, put on mood music, and invite a woman over for philosophical conversations\u2026and sex.<\/li>\n<li>Nor did men have to be threatened by gender equality. They didn&#8217;t need women to be housewives at home to feel like men. Instead men could support and enjoy the benefits of the sexual liberalization of women.<\/li>\n<li>The magazine also helped encouraged interracial relationships.<\/li>\n<li>On issues such as legalizing abortion and expanding access to contraception the magazine&#8217;s advocacy provided men with language they could use to side with what were traditionally seen as female causes without feeling insecure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The magazine was, of course, ultimately one that made money by selling naked images of women. Holly Madison, one of Hugh Hefner&#8217;s girlfriend&#8217;s, painted a disturbing picture of the founder of the magazine. And Bill Cosby is alleged to have perpetrated sexual assault at one of Playboy&#8217;s &#8220;mansions&#8221;. Read more about these and other criticisms of the magazine, as well as other impacts that the magazine has had on our culture over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/act-four\/wp\/2015\/10\/13\/playboys-legacy-beyond-the-centerfold\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/act-four\/wp\/2015\/10\/13\/playboys-legacy-beyond-the-centerfold\/\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playboy is going to become a PG-13 magazine, months after making the decision to reorient its website away from nudity. Alyssa Rosenberg noted that this was a good opportunity to examine the magazine&#8217;s legacy: Saying that people only read the magazine for the articles has become the butt of many jokes. But the magazine has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/101615_1216_PlayboysLeg1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13167,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13164\/revisions\/13167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}