Playboy models no longer nude

I didn't buy a copy, but judging from the cover, the Mexican version of Playboy is still totally nude.

Quote: Wizard

I didn't buy a copy, but judging from the cover, the Mexican version of Playboy is still totally nude.

There aren't a lot of restrictions on selling magazines with nude photos in Mexico.
http://www.playboy.com.mx/

Quote: Playboy Mexico

Vicente Fox Llama Ignorante A Trump
25 Febrero, 2016 Actualidad, En Playboy

Tras declaraciones de Donald Trump y su interés por mantener lejos a los inmigrantes, el expresidente Vicente Fox declaró en una entrevista para Univisión, que México no va a pagar el muro fronterizo que pretende implementar en caso de ganar la Presidencia de los Estados Unidos. Fox señaló que Trump no tiene idea de lo que es sentarse en la silla presidencial, además dijo que ve lejos el hecho de que gane la contienda, debido a que al menos 40 por ciento de los republicanos lo apoyan.

“Yo no voy a pagar por ese pinche muro” advirtió.

The word "advirtió" from advertir always throws me a little. In a sense it is if it means the same as it used to mean in English hundreds of years ago.

Quote: online etymology diction

advertise (v.) early 15c., "to take notice of," from Middle French advertiss-, present participle stem of a(d)vertir "to warn" (12c.), from Latin advertere "turn toward," from ad- "toward" (see ad-) + vertere "to turn" (see versus).

Sense shifted to "to give notice to others, warn" (late 15c.) by influence of advertisement; specific meaning "to call attention to goods for sale, rewards, etc." had emerged by late 18c. Original meaning remains in the verb advert "to give attention to."

Quote: Pacomartin

There aren't a lot of restrictions on selling magazines with nude photos in Mexico.

Not anymore.


BTW, the wait for an immigration visa to the US, not counting the ones set aside for "special skills" (such as modeling), is 23 years.

That's what's broken about the US immigration system, not the lack of Soviet-style borders. Imagine if there were so many regulations, caps and controls regarding movement within a country. So if you wanted to move from, say, Podunk to Peoria, you'd have to wait two decades to do so, unless you were someone with special skills who would wait only one decade.

How many people, do you reckon, would move "illegally" anyway?

Quote: Nareed

How many people, do you reckon, would move "illegally" anyway?

I think the Pew estimate is the most often quoted. Basically they believe about 6.5 million unauthorized Mexicans are in the USA, and as many as 25 million would come without authorization.

Quote: Pew Research Center

Mexican public opinion: According to a 2012 survey of Mexican adults, more than half (53%) believed that Mexicans who move to the U.S. have a better life there. And among Mexican adults, 38% said they would move to the U.S. if they had the means or opportunity to do so—18% would come with authorization while 19% would come to the U.S. without authorization.

The most recent Pew Hispanic Center estimate is that 11.1 million unauthorized immigrants lived in the U.S. in 2011. Unauthorized immigration peaked at 12.0 million in 2007, and fell since then mainly because of less immigration from Mexico, the largest source of U.S. immigration (Passel and Cohn, 2012). In 2010, unauthorized immigrants from Mexico made up 58% of all unauthorized immigrants (Passel and Cohn, 2011).

126,474,232 Current population
357,450 Births this year
90,811 Deaths this year
-60,540 Net migration this year

Quote: Vicente Fox

“Yo no voy a pagar por ese pinche muro” advirtió.

I've always thought of advertir as a false cognate. You would think it means "to advertise" but I take it more to mean "warn."

What I have a harder time with in that sentence is pinche. I've always taken it to mean something like "dang" but am all ears to a more robust definition.

Quote: Wizard

What I have a harder time with in that sentence is pinche. I've always taken it to mean something like "dang" but am all ears to a more robust definition.

So as not to discomfit Face: "Effing"

Quote: Pacomartin

There aren't a lot of restrictions on selling magazines with nude photos in Mexico.

Back in the 70's when I worked for a mob
controlled adult bookstore in Santa Barbara,
all the porn material came out of Mexico.
They had to drive down and get it once a
month. Really hardcore stuff. You couldn't
produce it here, just sell it. Made no sense.

Quote: Wizard

I didn't buy a copy, but judging from the cover, the Mexican version of Playboy is still totally nude.

I've been checking my PO Box every day, and still haven't received mine. So your comment made me research it a bit online, to see what happened. The Playboy website tells me nothing, not even when or if the issue came out yet. Just a bunch of clickbait. Evidently it did come out, and this site has many unhappy reviews of it, so I'm not missing anything. I've been a subscriber since 1980 when I was still in high school (1 year was $36 back then! that's over $100/year in today's currency) and if my subscription ran out, I am a little miffed Playboy never sent me a renewal notice. I get over a dozen magazines and they all start sending my renewals 6 months prior to the end, so I have plenty of time.

Playboy has gone downhill over the years anyway. Back in 2010 when they went from 12 issues a year to only 10, I knew the end was near. Then a couple years ago, there was a complete design change, dumbing it down so it's more of a elegant Maxim-type, aimed at 20-somethings. I know I'm not alone in not renewing. Hef has now lived long enough to see his empire crumble around him.

Quote: zippyboy

Playboy has gone downhill over the years anyway. Back in 2010 when they went from 12 issues a year to only 10, I knew the end was near. Then a couple years ago, there was a complete design change, dumbing it down so it's more of a elegant Maxim-type, aimed at 20-somethings. I know I'm not alone in not renewing. Hef has now lived long enough to see his empire crumble around him.

Didn't know they scaled back that way. Hugh, Larry, and Bob all built their various franchises and saw the life cycle peak, decline, and end or near-end. I still maintain that the USA edition is whole or in part to keep cred for the international editions which still seem to sell. But it will never have that high-class relevance it once had.

Playboy peaked in the 70's and 80's. It
was once an important part of the
culture, for it's interviews and articles.
Feminism ruined the playboy mystique.
Among other things.