Since selling magazines to this exact demographic was crucial to Playgirl's survival, it adapted. "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. 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. ĭespite 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. ![]() ![]() This article is from the archive of our partner.
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