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Yep. Came back about a year ago.

Doing a lot of things right to get away from the hardcore porn identity the brand took on in its final years. Firmly focused on their roots and the male nude. One new "centerfold" a month and reissuing out classic issues and pictorials online every few weeks. Not quite worth the current subscription price, but I'm supporting them while they rebuild.

But I don't think they are quite at the "able to pay a celebrity" level, yet, anyway.
Yes apparently there is a newsstand version out there, but I’ve never seen it. Playgirl has had as many transformations and permutations through the years as Lady Gaga!

Nudes. No nudes. Frontals. No frontals. Women’s lifestyle magazine. Feminist Bible. Thinly-disguised gay porn. Nope, we don’t want the gays! Let’s court celebrity covers. No it’s all about cock. COCK and more cock! Straight men running it all. Now it’s gay representatives. Print version. No print version. Monthly. Bi-monthly. No, bi-annually. Online AND print. Online only. Online subscription-only…head spinning!
They’ve never really known who their demographic is. Or been able to be truly honest about it.

Despite all this I’ve tried to remain loyal because of what they meant to me in my youth. I bit the bullet and got an online subscription to PlaygirlPlus about a month ago. Not bad. Not great, but not bad. I was hoping for more archived issues. And I wish they had a forum set up where fans could discuss their favourites etc. It’s more about nostalgia for me. But the boys are pretty!
 

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Yes apparently there is a newsstand version out there, but I’ve never seen it. Playgirl has had as many transformations and permutations through the years as Lady Gaga!

Nudes. No nudes. Frontals. No frontals. Women’s lifestyle magazine. Feminist Bible. Thinly-disguised gay porn. Nope, we don’t want the gays! Let’s court celebrity covers. No it’s all about cock. COCK and more cock! Straight men running it all. Now it’s gay representatives. Print version. No print version. Monthly. Bi-monthly. No, bi-annually. Online AND print. Online only. Online subscription-only…head spinning!
They’ve never really known who their demographic is. Or been able to be truly honest about it.

Despite all this I’ve tried to remain loyal because of what they meant to me in my youth. I bit the bullet and got an online subscription to PlaygirlPlus about a month ago. Not bad. Not great, but not bad. I was hoping for more archived issues. And I wish they had a forum set up where fans could discuss their favourites etc. It’s more about nostalgia for me. But the boys are pretty!
I feel the exact same as you, even down to why I subscribed recently. I agree with your suggestions, too.
 

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I think the name of the magazine was "For Women", but I might be wrong.

Back in the nineties, "For Women" was a mag from the UK (I imagine it doesn't exist anymore), a sort of "English Playgirl" which featured naked male models and, very seldom, somebody famous like actor John Alford (he posed naked but he only showed his beautyiful peachy bum). I read that, by the time Robbie Williams quitted "Take That", they had offered him to pose naked, but I suppose he didn't accept...
Yeah! Exactly! I heard about that magazine but was never able to see it. I wonder if there's a thread for it on here or an online archive.
 

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Frank Grillo of Marvel films and "Guiding Light" fame and some additional views of Josh Duhamel of movies and "All My Children" fame (I love these shots and always have, proving you can sport a normal man's penis and be as or more sexy than those blessed with horse members. More men should be comfortable posing nude for the art and experience, not worried if they will or won't measure up to the small percentage of really well-endowed men as an unrealistic ideal. We'd get so many more beautiful male nudes, and have much more realistic expectations of sexy penises, that way!)

Frank Grillo
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Frank Grillo - whenever he’s in a film I end up having to watch it again coz he’s soooo distracting that I lose the plot…! A true stud muffin!
 

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L.A. Rams quarterback Dan Pastorini did this nude shoot for PG as an encore to his mega-successful (mostly) jockstrap shoot for them in 1980, when he was with the Houston Oilers.

Though this one was a little more naked, I say the jockstrap one was hotter: Celebrities who've done memorable sexy non-frontal/underwear shoots?

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wow this is HOT !! i wonder if how many athletes of today will post nude for playgirl if its still exist
 

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L.A. Rams quarterback Dan Pastorini did this nude shoot for PG as an encore to his mega-successful (mostly) jockstrap shoot for them in 1980, when he was with the Houston Oilers.

Though this one was a little more naked, I say the jockstrap one was hotter: Celebrities who've done memorable sexy non-frontal/underwear shoots?

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Gorgeous.

But he looks older than 31 in these pics. I guess sunscreen has really made a difference in our lives.
 

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Gorgeous.

But he looks older than 31 in these pics. I guess sunscreen has really made a difference in our lives.
Yes, that and the lack of smoking (both our own and the constant exposure to other people's all day long).
 

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wow this is HOT !! i wonder if how many athletes of today will post nude for playgirl if its still exist
It still exists (just returned last year, actually), but I don't think they have a celebrity budget just yet.

They really need to use another angle, like charity or an issue/advocacy to attract celebrities.
 

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Ugh that sucks.

But how does he make money, really? I mean, I know he had his modeling gigs and all, but I've never seen him in big campaigns. Especially not in the last 20-15 years.

His erection looks thicker in this Butt Mag shot. But also... Butt Mag? Did he do it probono? Coz if I recall correctly, wasn't that mag about submitted content by amateurs?

lots of campaign too his agent really works for him HARD ❣️ Tony-Ward-Givenchy-Watches-Spring-Summer-2015.jpg
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