![]() ![]() Yet for its writers and fans, something tangible has been lost in its closure. Playgirl's passing certainly will not be lamented as would the death of a more respected, or even a mildly respected, magazine. ![]() None of the magazine's editors is involved.Ĭaldwell said Playgirl magazine suffered from the twin malaises of rising costs and declining sales Blue Horizon Media did not return repeated calls for this article. The last issue, dated January/February 2009, recently arrived on newsstands.Īlthough the Playgirl Web site is still running, the graphic content is geared more toward gay men. ![]() The women's dreams crashed when Blue Horizon Media, which also puts out hard-core magazines, announced it was shutting Playgirl. "It always felt like this uphill battle," said Jessanne Collins, 29, who was Playgirl's senior editor. They aspired to bring Playgirl back to its roots, back to a time when the magazine covered issues like abortion and equal rights, interspersing sexy shots of men with work from writers like Raymond Carver and Joyce Carol Oates.Īll the while, the editors juggled the demands of the publisher, Blue Horizon Media, which they said pushed to fill Playgirl with even more nudes and fewer words. So she and her fellow editors, all women in their 20s and all relative neophytes to the world of magazines - and pornography - resolved to fill Playgirl with something different.
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