Playgirl Is Dead, Long Live PlayGirl.com
The economic problems of print media have struck again, and this time male pornography is the victim. Playgirl, the premier mag featuring dudes in the nude, is closing its print version and taking its operation solely online.
The, er, shrinkage comes 35 years after the magazine was originally erected as a feminist response to Playboy and Penthouse. The site will most likely feature more videos and pictorials with fewer words, thereby taking the "just reading for the articles" excuse away from the both female and male readership. Editor-in-chief Nicole Caldwell confirmed the closure today, said that the last issue will hit newsstands on November 18th.
Perhaps this time around, the site won't have any credit card fraud problems. In the late '90s, Crescent Publishing shafted visitors to Playgirl.com and other adult Web sites by illegally charging over $180 million for "free" tours. [Source: FTC via Media Bistro]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
TokenFag @ Aug 4th 2008 7:18PM
"Rest In Penis" Playgirl (the magazine) ...
loved the puns btw.
lindee @ Aug 4th 2008 10:24PM
Well I'll be dicked.
vikki @ Aug 4th 2008 10:42PM
well it just shows you HOW many MENS mags there are out there WHY? because there are more male pervs then women. and i mean that in a light sense. i dont object to nudity male or female. but how many womens NUDIES mags are out there?? there ya go!
that and i think women think these sexy men must all be gay.
theres 2 kind of sexy men. those already taken and those that are gay..(BTW) im not against being gay either. im just saying sexy men are in short supply ;o)
maranda @ Aug 5th 2008 1:34AM
I subscribed to playgirl last year, but didn't renew again this year for the simple fact that it was obviously not for women so much as gay men. Not that anythings wrong with gay men subscribing but it is was the only magazine of it's kind supposedly geared for the interest of women. Gay men on the other hand have magazine choices galore. I think that if playgirl had stuck to it's original "for women" format, we would have continued to buy it. Such a shame...
Dale @ Aug 5th 2008 10:08PM
Say Larry, how do you know what kind of men have been in the mag for the last ten years??? Hmmmm could you perhaps be one of those "faggots" that you so derisively call them?
Mike @ Aug 5th 2008 10:28PM
The online edition will probably be better - the pictures are BIGGER for those near-sighted women (and men, too).
PlyGrl @ Aug 6th 2008 1:32AM
It's about time that piece of trash magazine went soft .......soft as the playgirl photos have always been............steamer photos appeared ,in of all places.....Cosmo magazine.
ROB @ Aug 9th 2008 1:44AM
I think the male body is beautiful. If a strait guy wants to admire the beauty of another man, that does not make him gay.
Gay is the attraction and desire to be sexually involved with another man.
The use of such rediculous words as faggot, etc, is purely by men who are unsure of their sexuality, or are deep down repressing their sexual attraction to other men.
Please, don't go to all of the famous museums of the world that display male nudes in both incredible marble statuary or oil paintings if you think that they were painted on canvas or carved of marble for the benefit of only gays and women; if you do you are an idiot.
Long live the appreciation for the male and female nude body in whatever media it is displayed.
Janey @ Nov 7th 2008 10:39PM
They never had any really hot guys in their mag. The needed pre-short haired Brad Pitt types. Ashton Kutcher type's too would have been good. All they had were guys that were in the gym too long, ie, they love themselves more then they could ever love any woman. They sure were asking the wrong women to pick the men that really make women stop short at the checkout. How about long haired Todd Manning number one. That's who the everyday woman was and still talking about.