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Writer Aminatou Sow shot by Andre Wagner for a feature in Playgirl Magazine by Emma Carmichael Raquel Willis shot by Kat Slootsk For the gay publisher, uprooting the title from its erotica tradition wasn’t an easy choice but a necessary one, and one he was well equipped for. and London before selling out and going back to press for a second printing. It debuted last November with nearly 10,000 copies in the U.S. Much like the original, the new Playgirl Magazine, currently only in print, was an immediate success. “My goal with issue 1 was to bring it back to its roots.” “It’s a mixture between a political magazine and an art magazine,” Kuhns tells Out of the new iteration, which premiered last fall with a cover of a very pregnant Chloë Sevigny, photographed by Mario Sorrenti. Cole Rachel, Carvell Wallace, and former Out executive editor Raquel Willis voices akin to the feminist icons who once graced its pages.
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Still, history tends to repeat itself.Ĭhloë Sevigny graces the first cover of the new Playgirl Magazine, photographed by Mario Sorrenti (top) Models featured and photographed by Myla Dalbesio.įor its first issue, the team recruited contributors like model-photographer Myla Dalbesio, Black Lives Matter cofounder Alicia Garza, T. By the time it folded in 2015, the title had gone rogue and became a pop culture-leaning gossip mag, losing the feminist appeal that made it successful during those early years. It was revered for its tasteful male nudes as well as its provocative storytelling, welcoming contributors like Maya Angelou, Gloria Steinem, Joyce Carol Oates, Eve Babitz, and more.īut over the decades, as the internet consumed the porn market, taking the magazine’s devoted gay male readers with it, Playgirl had no choice but to shift gears. At its peak in the mid-to-late ’70s, Playgirl was selling nearly 1.5 million copies at about $1 per issue. The magazine welcomed the notion that women, in fact, could be authoritative voices on sex, culture, and their own existence.
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At the height of the feminist movement, when print titles continued to objectify women’s bodies against the backdrop of a growing revolution, Playgirl offered a different perspective. When Los Angeles nightclub owner Douglas Lambert and editor Marin Scott Milam teamed up to launch Playgirl’s first issue in 1973, no one could have anticipated the public response.