Why do people think Playboy is degrading?

It's really not. It's tasteful and classy, they just have pictures of beautiful naked girls or in sexy underwear or lingery. It doesn't really equate to pornography. However, the playboy channel and the online spawn of Playboy magazine is pornographic, but not the magazine itself. Thousands of girls do it not to degrade themselves, but because they feel comfortable in their own skin and it's just showing their beauty. Playboy is like fine wine while Hustler and Penthouse are cheap beer.