Indeed, the magazine’s opening essay, by writer T Cole Rachel, talks about the irony of a magazine that was intended for women being co-opted by men – even if those men were gay.
It was interesting for a couple of years, then it was sold and resold, and it became what I thought of as a gay porn magazine.” “Everything they did in Playboy, they did in Playgirl. “They’re really fabulous in so many ways, but they do look like a man’s idea of what a feminist publication would be,” Playgirl’s editor-in-chief, Skye Parrott, told the Observer.
Playgirl, a notionally feminist title, simply countered Playboy’s Norman Mailer with Maya Angelou, Hunter S Thompson with Margaret Atwood, and matched its male centrefolds – pose for pose, Speedos (or less) for lingerie (or less) – with those of Playboy’s women. The new incarnation comes with the declaration: “We’ll take it from here”. Unusual, too, to relaunch a magazine that briefly – around 1973 – mirrored its recherché moment under the subheading “Entertainment for women”. It’s an unusual moment to launch a magazine, especially a print-only title. One exception may be Playgirl, a title that relaunches this week, featuring a cast of diverse and diversely focused writers and photographers orientated on the lives of women. M agazines tend to starve for love nowadays.
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