Playgirl
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Playgirl was an American magazine that historically featured pictorials of nude and semi-nude men alongside general interest, lifestyle, celebrity journalism, and original fiction. For most of its history, the magazine printed monthly and was marketed mainly to women, though it developed a significant gay male readership.
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Vinony's link graph records 181 inbound references to Playgirl, and connects out to Cosmopolitan, Naked Cowboy and Hong Kong.
It is catalogued under topics including Magazines established in 1973, Magazines published in California and Monthly magazines published in the United States.
Vinony links it to 22 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Magazine.image_file
- Playgirl-issue-one.jpg
- Magazine.image_caption
- June 1973 cover (issue 1, number 1)
- Magazine.logo
- Playgirl magazine logo march 1977.svg
- Magazine.publisher
- Douglas Lambert (1973–1976)Ira Ritter (1977–1986)Drake Publishers, Inc. (1986–1993)Crescent Publishing Group, Inc. (1993–2001)Blue Horizon Media, Inc. (2001–2011)Magna Publishing Group, Inc. (2011–2016)
- Magazine.category
- Women's magazines
- Magazine.frequency
- Monthly (1973–2009)Quarterly (2010–2016)
- Magazine.founded
- 1973
- Magazine.firstdate
- June 1973
- Magazine.finaldate
- Winter 2016
- Magazine.company
- Magna Publishing Group
- Magazine.country
- United States
- Magazine.based
- Paramus, New Jersey
- Magazine.issn
- 0273-6918
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- magazine
- Country
- United States
- Country of origin
- United States
- Main subject
- list of women's magazines
- Official website
- playgirl.com
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- inception
- 1973-00-00
- start time
- 1973-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- Playgirl
- different from
- Playgirl
- opposite of
- Playboy
- newspaper format
- tabloid
- product or material produced
- pornographic film
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- The Lambert years
- The Ritter years
- Drake Publishers, Inc.
- Crescent Publishing Group and Blue Horizon Media
- Blue Horizon
- 2020 relaunch and current era
- Celebrities and public figures nude in ''Playgirl''
- Readership and gay following
- ''Playgirl'' in popular culture
- Other versions
- See also
- References
- External links
Playgirl was an American magazine that historically featured pictorials of nude and semi-nude men alongside general interest, lifestyle, celebrity journalism, and original fiction. For most of its history, the magazine printed monthly and was marketed mainly to women, though it developed a significant gay male readership.
Since its founding, Playgirl has existed as a monthly and quarterly publication, in print-only, digital-only, and hybrid formats. From 1973–2009, the magazine was issued in a monthly print format, before transitioning to a quarterly print publication in 2009. Regular print operations were paused from 2016–2020, with only an online presence maintained. In November 2020, the magazine relaunched with a 10,000 print run in the U.S. and United Kingdom, before selling out and returning to press for a second printing. After that relaunch, the magazine resumed monthly releases as an online, digital publication.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Playgirl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.