Playboy magazine nixes nudes, saying they're 'passé'

Playboy Magazine is changing — and getting rid of the nudity.

According to the New York Times, Hugh Hefner, the silk-robed editor of Playboy Magazine met with Corey Jones, the actual still-does-the-work editor to make the change.

'My body's rockin'!- Jann Arden

Playboy will still feature a monthly playmate, but she won't be 'nude nude totally nude,' as our host Gavin Crawford puts it. The company's chief executive said, "You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it's just passé at this juncture."

Because News panelists Jann Arden, Rebecca Kohler and Anand Rajaram were surprised by the decision.

"Last night it was four or five clicks to get me there, I'll tell you what," quipped Arden.

'I was doing it for the girls' Arden says of nude shoot

In 2012, Arden posed nude in Zoomer Magazine.

"I was doing it for the girls of Canada who are marginalized and pushed out of the way of the idea of a perfect body," she said.

"Mine is far from that - but my body's rockin'!"

We did give Jann Arden a heads up that we would be talking about the shoot on the show — and took a behind the scenes video of her explaining her decision to take off her clothes for the camera.

Jann Arden talks about posing nude in Zoomer magazine

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In 2012, a Canadian celebrity posed nude in a magazine. Who it was is one of the questions on Because News' quiz this week, and the answer is one of the panellists. We gave her a heads up about the question.

Make a haiku about Playboy

You always hear that people read Playboy for the articles — and there's some merit to that claim. Margaret Atwood, Jack Kerouac, Gabriel García Márquez all wrote for Playboy.

We asked our panelists to mix sex and literature and compose a haiku inspired by Playboy.

You chimed in with your own submissions.