Playboy cover up a 'game changer'

14 October 2015 - 02:09
By Barney Henderson, ©The Daily Telegraph, Staff reporter

It was once the only choice for schoolboys seeking titillation, or perhaps more discerning older male subscribers who "read it for the articles". For a generation Playboy was almost a rite of passage for boys entering manhood. But now naked women, the very subject that built the Playboy global brand from the first edition, with Marilyn Monroe as the centrefold, to the present day, are being discarded.

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