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“Some of the guys are hot, but there are so many articles! Who is reading it?” “Can you believe that magazine?” I remember my friend saying, catching me in the rearview. A few weeks later-seeing the magazine lingering in the detritus of the backseat of her Chevy Impala-I discreetly flipped through it while I thought no one was paying attention, mentally cataloging the size and shape of the male genitalia on display and bemoaning the fact that there wasn’t more of it. I didn’t have a chance to actually look at a copy until one of my girlfriends was gifted an issue as a gag gift when we were in high school. Still, the magazine remained lodged in my imagination. Throughout my teens, I’d occasionally see Playgirl pop up in the back shelves of gas stations or head shops, but as a closeted gay boy in rural Oklahoma, I had learned well by that point to feign indifference to anything that might incriminate me as a burgeoning homosexual. A friend’s older sister had a copy in her room-a well-leafed issue from 1985 featuring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis on the cover-which was dramatically revealed to us at a sleepover, though we were forbidden from actually looking at it. The first time I remember seeing an issue of Playgirl was sometime in the awkward middle of Junior High. Link to the essay coming soon, but in the meantime you can snag a copy here. ↓ More from MenVintage.I was very happy to write the intro essay for the newly-relaunched version of Playgirl magazine.
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He made two musclemag covers two years apart in 19, and ten years later bared all for Norman Eales in Playgirl Magazine (February, 1975) and for Roy Dean in his “A World of Nudes” (also published 1975). California of 1965Ī good-looking young bodybuilder who continued to model into the 70s. Nudes by Douglas of Detroitĭouglas Juleff is one of the few artists known mostly for his nude works – the ratio of pouched-to-nude shots from his studio is very small! John Corvello, Mr. He stayed in the male erotica business into the 70s and, I believe, the early 80s, publishing magazines and even producing films. Brian” came into his own during this cross-over phase, and some of his nudes are quite wonderful.
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Still, for all that, there was a “cross-over” period where the studios/photographers still tried to get good-looking guys and pose them in pleasing ways before they realized that any pic with a hard-on would do to make a buck. 1966-1968) and the posing straps fell away, the need to couch erotic male images in coy costumes and poses gave way to blatant, in your face exhibitionism.
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Once it became legal to publish a completely nude male figure (c. Andy Buck by Douglas of Detroitĭouglas Juleff is best known for taking nude studies of his models – at a time when a jail sentence was almost a certainty if (when) a photographer was found to possess such work in his studio – or was discovered through a postal “sting” operation. Photos of hot bodybuilder Kim Fox from a late-60s magazine, probably published about ten years or so after they were actually taken. Kim Fox by Bruce of Los Angeles – color photos.