Playgirl Columnist Speaks Out About the Magazine's Demise
Posted at 10:43 AM Aug 05, 2008
Photo by Audacia Ray - from my Flickr
Sex educator, writer, and filmmaker Jamye Waxman has been the sex advice columnist at Playgirl since 2002. She's worked closely with the magazine in several capacities, and now that the publication is ending its print run -after 35 years- this coming fall, Jamye has some thoughts about the change:
I’m not happy that Playgirl is folding. Not because I’m losing a job, I mean it sucks to go from writing a regular advice column to not writing it, but more because I think that Playgirl, had it listened to some much needed advice since I’ve been part of their pages, could have been something beautiful. There is so much potential for a magazine that appeals to women (and men who like looking at men, and reading about women), but for some reason, in the United States we can’t seem to execute the formula of naked men + intelligent sexual conversation + interesting topics that appeal to women = happy magazine.
You can read her whole post here. It's definitely the most interesting and heartfelt coverage I've read about the magazine folding.
--Audacia Ray
I wonder why that is.
How can there be so many porn magazines out there geared for men but none for women?
I can only think of two reasons.
-Women just aren't as into it as men.
-Women like looking at the same stuff guys like looking at.
Posted by: axe at August 6, 2008 2:00 AM
Sorry, but I don't find Ms.Waxman's writing to be either interesting OR heartfelt. In fact, I found her article to be labored and somewhat awkward. If that's the style she uses to write her column, then it's not surprising Playgirl folded, if that's the quality of writing common to it. (Note: "it's" is possessive, as in "it is", not as "knowing Playgirl was coming to it’s end, but not knowing exactly when".
Posted by: [Anonymous] at August 6, 2008 4:31 AM
Maybe the magazine didn't do well because the men in it aren't particularly attractive. At a glance, at least, they all look like Ken dolls or hairy Ken dolls. The thrill of looking at naked Ken dolls wore off before I stopped playing with them. I love the visual of an attractive naked man, but Playgirl doesn't do that for me.
BTW, "its" as possessive never has an apostrophe, so there's no need to clarify. It's the possessive of nouns that have apostrophes. "It" is a pronoun, and most English pronouns don't take an apostrophe when made possessive (her, his, their, your, my, our, etc). "Its" is just confusing because it ends in 's'.
Posted by: Meg at August 18, 2008 12:09 AM
