Playgirl is Dead

Or rather, going "web only", which is pretty much a face-saving way of saying the same thing. As it is rather well known that the vast majority of the publication's readers were not of the female gender, one is tempted to say that the gay men of America will be in mourning - except that they're the very ones whose waning interest has caused the magazine to close up shop. With the advent of the web and the sheer ubiquity of much more extreme material - an ubiquity so far-reaching that it seems one can't escape running into gay viewing matter even when it is the last thing one would wish to lay eyes upon - publications like Playgirl which pretended to target female readers no longer serve any purpose, and unlike Playboy, gay men have no female companions to worry about pacifying with excuses like "I'm only reading it for the articles!"

Comments

[Andrew Reeves]

I can tell you that I've seen one instance in which an issue of Playgirl was bought by and given to a straight woman. It was as a gag gift.

[Abiola]

Exactly!