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Playgirl Magazine

Smartucus99

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Does anyone have memories of Playgirl magazine? You probably do if you are over 40. As a teen, I remember there were stores that carried Playboy and Playgirl. At age 14, I know I always snuck a peak at Playgirl and it was always exciting to see a few naked men. Gay porn was not easy to find in the 70's in a small town.

Playgirl, at its peak, had a circulation over a million and many would agree that 1/2 of the readers were gay men. Playgirl did not want to acknowledge this, but it was true. Some men even subscribed using a female name due to the homophobia of the 70s.

I remember when the Jim Brown Playgirl issue came out in 1974, I found a way to get a copy. It was one of their best selling issues.

What are your recollections of Playgirl?
 
I think Playgirl is still published, although for all I know it's online now rather than physical magazines. I say that because the Fiachra Ó Corragáin thread includes recent pictures taken for Playgirl.

I don't have any recollection of ever having "read" the magazine.
 
My mom had a couple copies. I remember sneaking a look at the wrestler Shawn Michaels issue. Not my type, but interesting since my brother watched wrestling and I knew who he was.
 
I acquired my first copy of Playgirl around 1974 from a newsstand in New Jersey. The centerfold featured a layout of Bill Cable, a straight model and minor celebrity known for dating Elvira and playing the murder victim in the opening scene of Basic Instinct. I mist have jerked off to that spread fifteen times the first night I got it, and I'm sure he helped shaped my tastes in pornography for years to come.

I picked up the occasional copy of Playgirl through the eighties, and although I preferred the more graphic layouts and tumescent models in the gay magazines, sometimes Playgirl was a nice break from the leather straps and ferret-sized moustaches popular in the gay porn scene at the time.

I lost my interest in Playgirl in the 90's when they started to feature too many guys with long hair on horses.
 
When I was a teenager, it was one of the mags I discovered in the drugstore in our village.

And swiped a copy or two to jerk off to, hiding them under the base of my night table away from my mother's prying eyes (she found them while housecleaning though)

And then one of the couples I babysat for had a whole bunch of them on their bookshelf along with Viva, so I loved being asked to babysit at their house. I could happily rub one out while the
kid slept upstairs.

Of course when actual homo mags like Blueboy appeared, Playgirl was of no interest to me.

Good times.
 
I suppose if anyone made a fuss, the guy could say he only had/bought them to get his girlfriend/wife worked up.:)




Oh crap, I forget, there are still a few people around who refuse to believe that a man married to a woman could possibly be gay. My bad
 
Did Playgirl have any content such as stories, like Playboy? If so, but the heavily closeted gay guy could make the argument I've heard some guys made for Playboy: "I get it for the stories!" :lol:
 
To get back to the original question... I remember it, but only by the title. I never saw an issue. I have to wonder if I had, however, if it would have shattered the denial that I'm gay a lot sooner.
 
BTW;

All my best fag hags have been fun whores, so it's quite likely that I have seen this particular magazine before, but I highly doubt it would have anything/anyone that/who would interest me.
 
I know that I saw Playgirl and looked at a copy a couple of times or so. I bought Playboy for the jokes.
 
Playgirl appeared during a time when I hadn't accepted my sexual orientation and when homosexuality was still frowned upon. My sister had a few copies and I snuck a look on a few occasions, but was not brave enough to acquire any for myself as I thought I was doing something wrong (although I still did it).

However, I do remember my mom keeping a stash of Cosmo and similar womens magazines in a storage room that I furtively glanced through when the family was out of the house, which was not often. I had already looked at my dad's magazines and decided I liked my mom's better (which should have been a strong signal about my orientation, but which I refused to accept). One day my mom put up a centrefold from one of the magazines for her enjoyment on the storage room wall and I was mesmerised: it was of a hairy guy in yellow swim shorts emerging from the sea, with the wet fabric clinging semi-transparently to his body leaving little to the imagination. I made all kinds of excuses to spend time in that storeroom and still wouldn't acknowledge my orientation. I guess mother and son had similar fantasy tastes in men.

Since that time, I have tried to find that centrefold for my own, but without success. It was likely towards the end of the 1970's, possibly to 1981.

I did manage to find electronic copies of many Playgirl magazines online in the intervening years from various sources and enjoyed them immensely. I think the detumescent members helped reduce any comparison concerns at the time, but I agree with another JUB subscriber that the long hair and on horses eventually put me off.
 
It comes as a shock to learn that some women actualy bought this magazine. I had assumed that it was mainly of interest to gay men and the whole 'aimed at women' pose was just a figleaf to get the mag onto the shelves of those shops who would never knowingly sell anything queer. The pix did not do that much for me, it was swimwear catalogues that excited me in the days when gay porn was impossible to find outside of London.
 
I remember having issues of playgirl, penthouse, and Hustler, because I could look at the men in those magazines. I was young and a female neighbor who was in college used to give me the magazines. She was so cool and knew that I was into men.

Nobody else has had copies of playgirl magazine?
 
seven2go said:
Playgirl archive

Penthouse archive

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Thank you for those links

Thank you for those links!

Did anybody ever see the Peter Steele Play girl Magazine Version?

He had a huge cock. I love their music, and I loved his cock but he was straight.

Petallways said:
He had a huge cock. I love their music, and I loved his cock but he was straight.
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That’s what he said, but I’m not sure you were telling the truth

Petallways said:
Thank you
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Ironically, there are a lot of women who watch gay male sex videos
 
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