Blue Horizon, then known as Crescent Publishing, was charged in 2000 by the Federal Trade Commission with over 180 million dollars of online credit card fraud, much of which was conducted on the Playgirl Magazine site. "Playgirl" is published by New York-based company Blue Horizon Media, which also publishes " High Society", " Celebrity Skin", "Hawk", "Chéri" and a number of other hardcore pornographic magazines. ] Also in 2003, the President of Trans Digital Media, LLC (the brand management firm for Playgirl TV), Mark Graff, stated that 50% of "Playgirl's" readership are gay males. Though the magazine is marketed to heterosexual women, "Playgirl's" then-editor-in-chief Michele Zipp said in 2003, "The gay readership is about 30%." She went on to add, "It's 'Entertainment for Women' because there's no other magazine out there that caters to women in the way we do, but we love our gay readers, as well." Michael Rowe, "The Advocate", Issue 895, August 19, 2003. The magazine is well-known for two publicity stunts - offering Charles, Prince of Wales $45,000 to appear nude in a centerfold in 1990, and publishing a nude pictorial called "The Men of Enron" in September 2002 in which some former Enron employees "lost their shirts." The magazine was founded in 1973 during the height of the feminist movement as a response to erotic men's magazines such as " Playboy" and "Penthouse" that featured similar photos of women. Head on over the The Hairpin to read more about the evolution and history of the bygone porn magazine, or at least to click over for the pictures."PLAYGIRL" is a monthly pornographic women's lifestyle magazine published in the United States that features semi-nude or fully nude men. In a 2008 issue there was a penis per page, says Collins. Regardless, outraged readers got what they wanted: By 1989 the cover featured a shirltess man grasping a neon leotard.
People were asking for, literally, pictures of penises." The demands also might have had something to do with the magazine's " unmentionable" gay readership. "When they first bought it the new publisher was like, 'We’re not going to have any penis because women don’t want to look at penises,' and again, it nearly put them out of business," explains Collins. Eventually, the "formula applied to Playgirl" involved "more erections." Though, at another point in the evolution, in 1986-at a time when you'd think ideas of female sexual desire weren't so dated-the magazine, under new management, again made the same mistake about its readers' desires. Since selling magazines to this exact demographic was crucial to Playgirl's survival, it adapted.
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"The thinking was that women didn’t want to see too much, and all these readers were like, we want to see actual penis." In 1973, deep into the sexual revolution, women (or men) buying a magazine for the explicit reason that it was full of hot dudes (to get off to), indeed wanted to see totally naked men. "So many people wrote in so angry there wasn’t actual penis," she said.
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The first ever issue had no full dicks, at all, which (surprisingly!) disappointed readers, Jessanne Collins, who wrote How to Be a Playgirl and worked at the magazine from 2007 through 2008, when it shut down, told Atlantic Wire contributor Jen Doll for The Hairpin. Despite editors assuming that the women of America didn't want penises in their porn magazines, twice in the history of Playgirl, readers demanded more full frontal nudity, showing the power of the invisible hand even in the making of sex mags.
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