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Men and Lads: Playboy nods to the cultural revolution

Lad mag circulations have been diving and several have closed. The debate about sexual objectification of women isn’t just a joust between men and women, it is an argument between men.

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When Peter Stringfellow tells you that you are a ‘lovely lady’ you know that your are either in the wrong job, or the wrong conversation - or you are winning the argument.

We were debating on Sky News the decision by Playboy magazine to abandon nudes in its Spring 2016 revamp. Stringfellow, the ‘sex entertainment' entrepreneur, insisted that Playboy is merely modernising, moving to the internet where easy access to virtual sex and women is a most prolific and profitable form of traffic.

But Stringfellow and other commentators are missing something more interesting: we are in midst of a cultural revolution.