Monday 7 March 2011

Playgirl UK launches – but without the nudity, just models, actors and so on in tasteful poses

The US magazine is a favourite with gay men and up to 50 per cent of the readership has been estimated to be male.   However, a Playgirl spokeswoman said the UK version would only feature men topless from the waist up.

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The spokeswoman said surveys of female readers say they do not want to see nudity and prefer to see a man’s eyes and chest.   Instead, the monthly publication will have a topless centrefold, entertainment news and columnists.

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Other features include photography by Central St Martins graduates, beauty and fashion.    The first issue is out on March 10th as a soft launch. It is published by Playgirl Publishing, a new venture from Fire Publishing.

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Playgirl US was founded in 1973 as a feminist retort to Playboy magazine.

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