Playboy no longer running nude photos of women

Darn you, Internet.

Playboy, which helped usher in the sexual revolution in the 1950s and '60s by bringing nudity into the mainstream of magazines, said this week that it will no longer run photos of completely naked women.

"You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it's just passe at this juncture," Playboy Enterprises CEO Scott Flanders told the New York Times.

Playboy has thus decided that the answer is less skin, not more.

Starting in March, Playboy's print edition will still feature women in provocative poses, but they will become more like other mags with PG-13-type pictures.

The Times said Playboy has not decided whether to continue to have a centerfold.

Or whether the cartoon characters will also have to be dressed.

(Thank goodness Little Annie Fanny isn't still around to see this.)

Although the change represents a major shift for the magazine, it is also the latest step away from full nudity, which was banned from Playboy's website in August 2014. That helped make the site safer for work and public places, and enabled Playboy to get onto Facebook, Twitter and other platforms.

The mag has said that its online audience soared with that move, averaging a fourfold increase in monthly unique visitors.

"The political and sexual climate of 1953, the year Hugh Hefner introduced Playboy to the world, bears almost no resemblance to today," Flanders said in a statement.

The U.S. Constitution, on the other hand, was written in 1787, and some folks would have you believe that nothing in the world has changed since then.

Taylor Swift earned six American Music Awards nominations yesterday, and may soon become the most-honored female artist in the show's history.

Ed Sheeran and the Weeknd had five nominations each, trying to win their first awards. Sam Hunt, Nicki Minaj, Sam Smith, Meghan Trainor and Walk the Moon had three nominations each.

Swift was one of 10 nominees for artist of the year - maybe each should get a participation trophy - and her "Blank Space" was nominated for song of the year. She was also nominated for collaboration of the year for "Bad Blood" (with Kendrick Lamar), and her blockbuster "1989" is competing for album of the year.

Taylor has won 16 AMAs. Since the show launched in 1974, Whitney Houston's 21 awards tops all women. Michael Jackson's 24 awards are the most of any artist.

Swift, Sheeran, the Weeknd, Minaj, Trainor, Smith, Luke Bryan, Ariana Grande, Maroon 5 and One Direction are artist-of-the-year nominees. (Is this One Direction with Zayn or without? Voters need to know.)

The nomination list will be narrowed to five by Nov. 11 through fan votes.

Jennifer Lopez will host. The show will air live Nov. 22 on ABC, from L.A.'s Microsoft Theater.

T.I. did little to change a perception of rap being misogynistic when he told DJ Whoo Kid, "Not to be sexist, but I can't vote for the leader of the free world to be a woman."

Unsurprisingly, that did not sit well with women - or non-Cro-Magnon men.

And what's the problem with a female president?

"I just know that women make rash decisions emotionally," T.I. said. "They make very permanent, cemented decisions - and then later, it's kind of like it didn't happen, or they didn't mean for it to happen."

He added, "And I sure would hate to just set off a nuke. [Other leaders] will not be able to negotiate the right kinds of foreign policy; the world ain't ready yet. I think you might be able to [get] the Loch Ness Monster elected before you could [get a woman]."

Yeah . . . (Please insert sarcasm) because the 70 (and counting) world leaders since 1960 who have been women have been so much worse than their male counterparts and Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel, Benazir Bhutto, Corazon Aquino and Mary Robinson were such twitchy, indecisive hotheads.

Unfortunately for male presidential candidates, T.I. can't vote because he's a felon.

Our favorite two tweets on the subject, thanks to eonline.com:

@Bear2theRight wrote: "T.I. says women are too emotional to be president. T.I. once punched Floyd Mayweather over an Instagram picture."

@nomchompsky wrote: "T.I. says he wouldn't trust a female president with a nuke, and if anybody knows about responsible weapon ownership, it's T.I."

T.I. later tweeted an apology.

* One year and one day before the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump will host "Saturday Night Live."

The musical guest for the Nov. 7 show will be Sia, which, coincidentally, is what America will be saying to Trump at some point during the next year and one day.

- Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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