But in the demographics of loins, the target audience was the mirror Ostensibly, Playgirl was marketed toward the urban, upper- middle- class, liberated groovy chick. It was a lifeline to our sexual existence. Women." But for me, and no doubt for an entire nation of miserably closeted small-town gay boys, it was nothing of the kind. (and where would I have found that in upstate New York?). Impossibility, anyway, where I grew up), my sole outlet was the onlyįull-color magazine to feature fully nude men, short of hardcore gay porn Too stricken to act on it (which seemed an
Inwardly I was burning up from the flames of shame, for it was men I craved. Twenty-plus years ago, I was just hitting puberty, outwardly shining, an altar boy, an honors student. He was probably the biggest of all the Playgirl's Men of the Year - and by that I mean most popular, but come to think of it, his dick was pretty large, too. Working at Playgirl hadn't, as she'd feared, made her unhirable after all.I'll call him Stone. (Playgirl has since resumed publishing quarterly and has an online presence that is more gay-oriented.)Īfter the magazine folded, Collins was quickly hired by another magazine.
The magazine folded in August of 2008, and the whole staff was out of a job, including Collins, who had by then been promoted from associate editor to managing editor. Typical negotiations with the celebrities' handlers, Collins says, ended in, "Oh, he'll be in underwear," or "Oh, he'll show his butt but not his front." Still, that didn't guarantee they'd show the full monty for the camera. "There was a certain tier of celebrity that was interested in being in Playgirl for the exposure: reality TV stars, up and coming country singers maybe, certain lowbrow wrestlers." When it came to celebrities, "There was always this intense negotiation about how naked they would get," Collins explained. So if that meant posing as one of the (fully-clothed) females lounging by the pool in the "Campus Hunks" issue - instead of hiring models - would help meet budget, then that's what Collins did.Ī country-music themed issue had her "reaching out to a lot of B-list country singers and saying, 'Do you want to take your clothes off in Playgirl?'" Not every musician was flattered.
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