Their efforts, the women said, got virtually no support indeed, their higher-ups, all of them men, usually resisted their push to give the magazine editorial heft.
After Blue Horizon denied a request to finance a blog, Collins built one herself, starting it on WordPress, a free platform. The magazine had no marketing or public-relations budget, so its editors sought to revive the Playgirl brand themselves, throwing parties at a Lower East Side bar. To her delight, Caldwell landed interviews with Jack LaLanne and Dolly Parton.Ī do-it-yourself ethic bloomed.
They printed articles about a campaign to take toxic chemicals out of cosmetics and about problems with Amsterdam's red-light district. The editors strove to publish articles that were saucy but relevant. want his undraped frame featured in the magazine's centerfold after all. In the end, Playgirl was run by a skeleton crew of these three editors, along with what Caldwell described as "a whole horde of eager unpaid interns." Playgirl magazine is holding 400 nude pictures of '/fee Haw ' star Some coins. as the first celebrity centerfold in Playgirl. ten revealing photos of Brad in their August 1997 issue. We were the only magazine that offered naked men to women." And it's all culminating with his seminude photo shoot for Playgirl magazine. "For better or worse, this was a real blow for feminism. "I think a different kind of porn is very degrading to women, but the kind of stuff we were peddling was about what women wanted," says Caldwell, who is 26. Related tags: vintage playgirl photos, vintage playgirl, vintage playgirl couples, vintage playgirl models, vintage playgirl centerfolds, vintage.
Now the three editors' nudie magazine with feminist leanings is gone, and with it, strange and exciting career moments.