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. MALE NUDES: PLAYGIRL MAGAZINE: " MEN OF THE MONTH" PORTFOLIO. To her delight, Caldwell landed interviews with Jack LaLanne and Dolly Parton.Ī do-it-yourself ethic bloomed. June 1974 FOLD OUT Christopher George in the CENTERFOLD Male Sex Surrogate.
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. 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."
We were the only magazine that offered naked men to women."
"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. Now the three editors' nudie magazine with feminist leanings is gone, and with it, strange and exciting career moments.
0 kommentar(er)
