Perhaps the clearest sign of deep shifts in the industry was Playboy’s announcement in October of 2015 that after sixty-two years, it would no longer feature nude photos. Founder Hugh Hefner, who in 2006 was named by the Atlantic as one of the most influential living Americans in large part because of photos of unclothed women, agreed with the move. One of the reasons for this change was that, like other publications, Playboy depended increasingly on traffic from social media, but sites like Facebook and Instagram did not allow nudity.
