He also died young, kiiled in a motorbike accident in 1992. He didn’t come out as gay until much later, and he died in 2015.Īnother Playgirl model, Bill Cable aka Stoner, apparently appeared with Christina Crawford (!) in a mysterious video which has disappeared from youtube, alas. Thus, tight pants, pastel colors, and long hair were acceptable if your body wasn’t just buff, but pumped up.Īnd in 1992, a pumped up, hard-bodied stud with a tattoo (harbinging what is now a rather generic look among millennials) named Dirk Shafer appeared as Playgirl’s Man of the Year. This hair was not hippie long hair that evoked Woodstock dancing and shabby communes in the woods it was more like the idealized long hair of medieval knights and cavaliers and the like, heroes and antiheroes of romance novels.īut the long hair encouraged even more muscles, perhaps a reaction to possible associations with effeminacy in the more conservative eighties. How much hair is attractive? Or the lack thereof?īurt Reynolds on the cover of Playgirl in December, 1974Īnd note that many of the models, especially in the eighties, loved showing off their luxuriant locks. The poster I referred to on Datalounge mentioned hairy bushes as if that was a style of the past, and that observation brings up the issue of shaving. Of course the photographers hid his member, but there was plenty to fantasize about even if was not visible. When Burt Reynolds died recently, many remembered his moment in Playgirl. Lyle Waggoner in the first issue of Playgirl That came later, when the previous censorship of such materials was finally letting up in the early 1970s. The first issues of Playgirl did not show cock, though. For her sketches, Carol needed a straight guy, and I bet she also knew she would attract a certain audience (the Playgirl audience) by showing off his easy, unaffected, yet indisputably, studly presence. Now, the first Playgirl centerfold was Lyle Waggoner, who gained fame by appearing as a regular on the iconic Carol Burnett Show. The original poster made a point that the models in the 1970s and 1980s generally revealed huge bushes, and that they were trim and muscular overall, not what one might term “gym-pumped” or, to be biased, “steroid” bodies. What is interesting is that as recently as last week, on a gay chat board, Datalounge, the subject came up, and it wasn’t just a retro/nostalgia discussion from the eldergays. Playgirl magazine, often billed unofficially as the “magazine for women and gay men,” has undergone some changes in its presentation through the years (one can no longer obtain the traditional hard copies that were usually hidden under some gayling’s bed at some point).Įven the naked guys in the magazine have changed, and that change reflects some social trends.
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