Playboy Launches Safe For Work Website

If you're one of the three people in the world who actually reads Playboy for the articles, today is your lucky day. Every young boy's favorite magazine to find in their uncle's closet has launched a "safe for work" website. From the article: "TheSmokingJacket.com will contain none of the nudity that makes Playboy.com NSFW — not suitable for work. Instead, it'll rely on humor to reach Playboy's target audience, men 25 to 34 years old, when they are most likely to be in front of a computer screen."

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[michaelmalak]

Just this story icon makes this Slashdot story NSFW

"Men 25 to 34 years old," really?

[Fulminata]

The last time I read playboy was about five years ago when I picked up a super cheap subscription for a year. The first issue I received had stories on Elvis. The next one featured Marilyn Monroe. Apparently Playboy doesn't realize that the baby boomers are no longer in their twenties and thirties.

Jokes about "reading the articles" aside, Playboy was once a great source for relevant articles, both fiction and non-fiction, but that ceased to be the case a couple of decades ago.

Re:"Men 25 to 34 years old," really?

[lawnboy5-O]

Indeed - and I believe with a little more digging you will find the writing is for a lower reading level than what it once was. It used to be well edited and written with decent prose - a decade or two ago.

Unfortunately...

[Fnkmaster]

There used to be some interesting interviews and the like in Playboy magazing, in addition to the skin.

The problem is these articles on thesmokingjacket.com are written for morons. "Get Kinky in Your Backwards Robe" about having sex in a Snuggie. "Larger than Life" - does some chick with 38KKK fake boobs have the world's biggest fake boobs? "Can he survive without hairspray" about Jimmy Johnson's hairdo. "How to get laid at work". That sort of speaks for itself.

I mean, I was thinking a bit like Esquire, but this looks like CollegeHumor.com without the humor, mixed with one of those magazines your wife or girlfriend secretly likes to read in the checkout line but is too embarrassed to buy.

I don't get it

[roman_mir]

who wants to see that?

The meme: useless without pic is most appropriate here.

Three people?

[thousandinone]

Who honestly reads playboy for the PICTURES these days? I dunno about everyone else, but I find the myriad free videos available online to be vastly superior to any still image, much less the glossy airbrushed crap playboy brings to the table.

On the other hand, at least in years past, Playboy has had some phenomenal articles- both serious, semi-serious, and just funny. I know they used to run a jokes page as well which was always good for laughs.

I haven't actually held a playboy for a long time now, but my point is the same- why pay for stills when you can get video free?

If this is safe for work...

[GuruBuckaroo]

I want to work at the company that would allow this as "Safe for work". Good grief.

Re:Not safe enough for my work

[tattood]

Not to mention that explaining to the HR department that "its a safe for work playboy!" wont work too good.

HR's answer: You should be working at work, not reading Playboy articles.

No data plan required

[tepples]

there's a whole fucking internet out there that you can access for free?

A print magazine doesn't need a $60 per month data plan.