Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals - eviltoast
Use of "Lenna" image in computer image processing research stretches back to the 1970s.
  • million@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Keep in mind that Playboy had a reputation as more than just porn. A lot of really respected authors had work published in Playboy.

    I not sure of its culture status when the event in question happened, but it would have been different then say, Penthouse.