How do you make money selling something that's freely and abundantly available on your phone?

Subscriptions are down 90%.

When he ran the magazine with an iron hand, it was pretty unbeatable. Yeah, Penthouse and Hustler forced him into territory where he didn't belong. The Internet also complicated things. But once he became more of a figurehead and mascot for the magazine, its mojo took a serious trip down south.

I remember a lengthy article about the deep and secret connections between Howard Hughes and Richard Nixon that was the first ever to explore that swampy corner of the Nixon bog. I read it for years - and cover to cover.

And there was a long debate about "going pink" because Hustler was doing it and killing them in circulation. Haven't seen the magazine in years so I wonder if they still do show those revealing shots.

FOR FREE.

Sexual objectification has gone techno. Print smut is just not gonna make it anymore.

it's been on life support after that.

I had the opportunity as a young 20 something to go to the Playboy club in Manhattan on the very last night it was open.

I couldn't figure out what all the fuss was about.

It seemed like a throwback to my dads era for sure.

The mag has been a money loser for decades now.

I bet they are a few issues that are gonna be worth a lot more than your Beannie Babies.

In 1982 I was helping a college friend move out of an old house. There was a locked closet and he'd never been in it. I picked the lock and inside we found several boxes of old Playboy magazines. Probably 80 or more. He gave them to me after check with his landlord who denied any knowledge of them.

A few from the late 50s and a lot from the 60s. It really was cool reading the editorials and letters about the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War and the moon landing in "real time". Kind of like a time capsule. I suppose my roommates and I also looked at a picture or two.

I got married. Let one of my roommates "keep them" for me. He moved home and his mother found them and threw out the whole stash. Sigh. Prob worth a small car today!

gun magazines , muscle magazines , German Boy Racer Car Culture , pimped out travel rags and Repukian Greed attempting to set thing back one hundred years .It was probably the first magazineto build a "life style image " as a market segment .Thus falls Rome .

How will Playboy be any different?

Who buys pr0n in magazines anymore?