Your favorite guys from Playgirl

Here’s Steve and a video clip about a stripper. I wonder if the whole movie is available somewhere. I would watch it!

More Overkill:

Because someone will inevitably be all "But I don't remember when/who"

Bobby Sands.

He shoots, he scores!!

Sigh......Brian......

Steve Rally photoshoot.

Leighton Schultz

[R5]: Brian Buzzini for the win. There was also a non-centerfold, pictoral from about 1997 or 1998, that featured a tanned man, nude walking on a beach. Those were some beautiful pics, and have been looking for them online, to no avail.

Brian Dongzini

Christopher Atkins-celebrity addition.

Is Steve Rally gay?

Max Werner. He was in my uncle's secret stash of Playgirls. I was probably 14 or 15 when I saw him in it, and he was exactly the type of guy I was hot for back then. Beautiful cock.

Route 69

I love the lack of tattoos and unshaved pubes! Leighton Schultz at R7 gets my vote for #1.

Max Werner....nice bush.

Leighton Schultz!! woof.

sexy studs

Kelly Coffee

That Kelly Coffee is pretty easy to find on Facebook. At least I think it's him. You have to look at his wife's profile for more pics of him.

he must be ancient now

Doug Koziak

John Holliday

R19, this him?

[quote]Is Steve Rally gay?

I always wondered. I think he worked at gay bars, but he never did gay (or straight, for that matter) interactive porn, so who knows?

Breck Craparo

R11 It’s hard for me to figure that one out. But if you go by his dancing ability @ R1 I would say yes!

I love this picture of Steve. Do not forget to zoom in!

Omg! The smoldering gazes alone.......

what can I say, I was always a bit into daddies and a size queen, to boot

Bill Cable for the win!

R29, Horst has HORSECOCK!

R23, I think so, but that's not the best photo to reference.

R31 Indeed he does! I spilled so many loads looking at that giant slab.

big boys are best

I had it BAD for Jonathon Prandi.

I had so many sessions looking at this photo. I can imagine his laying on the raft, orange speedo in place. Then he casually pulls it down. No biggie, he wants to get a full suntan, no intent on getting a reaction. It's a natural thing to do.

James, from 2007

After the introductory pages, quite a surprise when you turned the page and he went full-nude. One of the biggest I have ever seen. Maybe the eyebrows, mustache and thick hair on his head gave enough clues. Still, I was dumbfounded. I got an instant woody.

Back in the 70s and 80s when grooming your pubic hair was inconceivable, were you embarrassed by your bush? Maybe it was too big or two small. Not the right color? Were you pleased about what you received? Did you want to show it off? Maybe it wasn't a big deal.

Some guys with the biggest bushes liked to hang out in the high school locker room after showering when practice was over. I had the impression they wanted to out-bush the others. Some even blow-dried their pubes. Others who seemed just past puberty were quick to wrap their towels around themselves after showering when practice was over. in the college dorm and group showers, our bushes were varied and I took note. No one put great effort to hide what they had.

Looking back, what were you thinking about your own pubes?

Max Werner is HUGE

I think the editors of Playgirl at the time put a premium on a large bush. I always thought the models' pubes really stood out.

He was the most beautiful man I’d ever seen in 1976: David White.

David White was one of the Marlboro Men in the 70s. I put this picture on the inside of my locker. I thought he was so sexy. I didn't realize it was the same David White I saw in Playgirl until the 90s. Not in a million years. I took care of business that night.

so sexy

David White was the Winston Man, but who’s looking at the cigarettes anyway.

He was hot, even with those caterpillar eyebrows

R35!! Wow he’s smoking!

Actor Christopher George.

Plus, remember that photo shoot of the three generations (grandfather, father, son)?

[quote]Plus, remember that photo shoot of the three generations (grandfather, father, son)?

Yep. Grandpa and Dad had mushroom caps for cocks!

Daddy Myette not being so camera shy...

Is this young Scott Myette today?

Rob Monroe, Playgirl's February 1981 centerfold. I was 16. I spanked it so much to that issue.

This centerfold captured my attention for years

Breck Orshal

I remember Rob Monroe’s shoot. Beautiful face and smile. So clean-cut, He didn’t look the type to pose nude. I thought it was so daring to spread his legs like that, leaving his cock and balls just hanging in space. I wouldn’t have guessed he had so much pubic hair. That stood out in the spread eagle as well. Thank you. One of my favorites.

wholesome and slutty

David Haskell for me. Great body, big, thick cock. And he had kind of a Michael Landon quality about him.

Nice cock.

R29 Horst was still a rent guy in South Florida up until just a few years ago. A friend of mine hired him. Said he was still in pretty good shape, although he was in his late 50s then. Problem was he never got hard. My friend said he pretty much just slapped his huge, rubbery cock on my friend's face.

Rob Monroe is hot! He reminds me of so many guys I crushed on in HS and college.

Always sorta clean cut face/hair, but those furry legs would drive me crazy!

[quote]Horst was still a rent guy in South Florida up until just a few years ago.

[quote]Problem was he never got hard.

A common issue with most escorts, isn't it?

Still, I would have gladly engaged Mr. Horst for a night of dick slapping.

R59, I wonder if that dick ever got hard? It’s so big!

If Horst was inside me hard with THAT I could cum immediately. Feeling all that inside.....damn!!

I jacked many times to this spread. Unfortunately, his name is too common to figure out what he looks like now.

hairy and handsome

I'd love to be hanging out at this guy's pool.

Which came first, male models who would pose nude, or Playgirl itself? Which was the supply and which was the demand?

Which models approached Playgirl, Which were approached by Playgirl? I'd be interested to know.

I wonder what the celebs who posed for a layout were payed?

Keith Rivera before the terrible facelift.

They do say Tracy James was supposed to be featured in Playgirl, this was back in early 1990's or so. But then person or persons whispered vile dirt in Helen Gurley Brown's ears, and the thing was squashed.

Anthony Catanzaro

Sadly Tony Catanzaro wasn't well lately, but hope he's better.

R57 yes, hot guy and nicely trimmed bush. I hate unkempt bushes of yesterday......

R66 I remember when I first saw this guy in Playgirl. He had one of the finest asses I've ever seen.

R71

Story is incorrect.

Tracy James did pose nude (well you couldn't see anything) as Cosmopolitan Magazine's man of the year.

R67

From almost start Playgirl featured nude or semi-dressed men; the magazine was created to fill a (then market) which lacked porn for women, while men had Playgirl, Penthouse and many others.

A pretty long list of male celebrities appeared in PG including those already with established careers don't think they did those shoots for free.

Behind the scenes Playgirl chatter

good one!

Took a while to find John Matuszak, because I incorrectly searched for him as Mike. Damn but that photo spread was hot even without peen, but it doesn't matter, he has a lot of other stuff on display to recommend him. The one of him prone, with his foot JUST touching that bottom step always put me over the top.

Just found a video of his appearance on David Letterman. I think I'll be up late tonight.

Links? R80

r81 Ah, my friend, if I knew how to link I'd count myself fortunate. Have tried now and again, but it never works for me, it's tough being as un-savvy as I am about computers. I hope you'll forgive this particular shortcoming.

Here's big bear John:

So how did John Matuszak really die, anyway? I've heard everything from AIDS to drugs to suicide. IMDB lists his cause of death as heart failure.

I'm really not into bearish guys, but I'd have definitely made an exception for him. He was hot in the otherwise terrible movie "Caveman."

The TOOZ! Thank you to r83 and r84 for posting those pix.

Beautiful eyes: check

Looks good wet: check

Nice smile: check

Can rock a pair of suspenders: check

Appreciable treasure trail: check

Hot, dimpled ass: check

What more do ya' want?

Tom Gagen. I fapped so much to this image when I was 19. I love his fat fireplug cock and toned body. I've always been attracted to men a few years older than myself.

Let's try this again. Tom.

OMG what on earth has happened.

I think Tom is gay.

Tom NOW

R82, linking is about as trivial as it can be. There's a fucking box labeled "Web Site Link" right above the post button. Not sure how you can miss it, or how you can fail to copy and paste a link from the address bar into that box. Jesus, it's not rocket-science.

More Tom today.

R91, that's from the 90s. He's got to be in his late 60's by now.

r90 What is this cut and paste you speak of?

Like I said, VERY un-savvy.

R87 I remember being so turned on by that picture when I was a young gayling. Loved his muscled up, tanned body, and fat dick.

R92 Probably in his late 70s. His original spread was from 1977, and he was probably in his late 30s or early 40s then. Being generous and saying he was 35 in 1977, that would make him 78 now (assuming he's still alive).

Wanna see Tom Gagen in action? Here he is playing a stripper in an episode of the Jeffersons. Go to the 14:04 point.

cuties

Gagen was hot and hairy in his first pictorial....

....but looked a lot older...and WAY too smooth...in the second

R93, "Cut and paste" has been around since the early 80s, and is one of the most fundamental and basic aspects of using a computer that is universal across all PCs and laptops no matter who makes them or what OS they run... it's even on phones for chrissakes.

CUNT and paste

R95, he was supposedly 28 in that '77 pictorial. So yes, he's in his 70s, regardless. He also did a pictorial in the 2000s when he was in his 50s and he still looked good and let his body hair grow back.

R101 No way he was 28 in that '77 pictorial. 38 at best.

I still feel bad about Dirk Shafer's death. he was a genuinely nice guy who got out of Oklahoma, and tried to make something of his life even beyond his stripping and posing work; but he couldn't break out of the world of circuit parties and drugs and escorting.

He was a man of the year, and came back to pose at age 49. He was still stunning.

Cocaine and meth, so very sad.

Dirk Shafer seems to maybe have been tormented by same forces that (sadly) hit many gay men as they reach middle age; aging in a culture that is obsessed with youth.

R90 for people that are tech illiterate, cutting and pasting a link is like rocket science. Trust me I live with somebody who can still not even text message. No matter how many times I tried to teach him! So forget about about cutting and pasting a link!

I am so thrilled this thread has become somehow devoted to a discussion of the ethics and difficulties of cutting and pasting.

R106

Well this is Datalounge, what did you expect?

DL is littered with the sorrows of fans following hundreds, nay thousands, of beautiful porn men and their fallen penises. (Penii?)

He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword

Don't think I'd equate large majority of Playgirl models with porn per se. Evidenced by all the "WEHT" queries many guys moved on after PG and were never heard from again.

I was just making a joke R109.

But Dirk Shafer, sadly, does fit some of that "sad ending of the promising porn god" story we've heard a few times here.

There was another, Tony Lattanzi (aka Anthony Michaels) who did Playgirl along with gay mags like Honcho and Playguy, also a few gay porn videos.

Heard a rumor years ago that he committed suicide, but don't quote me on that as have never seen it in print or other confirmation.

Apparently this guy, Rock Pamplin, has lived an interesting life. I believe we had a thread where he was discussed. He seemed to be a Paul Baressi type - obviously not looks-wise.

R110

Don't think "porn god" (promising or otherwise) is how Dirk Shafer saw his life rolling out.

Yes, he was very attractive, but as we all know the gay community is full of such guys. How seriously others take them however is another matter.

While there isn't anything inherently wrong with being a forty or fifty year old being a personal trainer for a living, am guessing DS perhaps saw his life unfolding otherwise.

Gorgeous/hot gay guys are not unlike attractive women; they can have a definite shelf life. There is always something younger, fluffier, (or in case of men, harder) coming up the ranks. When your life in whole or part is wrapped up in appearance, loss of youth and looks can be a jolt.

[quote]Apparently this guy, Rock Pamplin, has lived an interesting life.

Please God don't let this become a Rock Pamplin discussion thread.

Peter Scott >

Greg Anderson

They often didn't show you their bums. But Greg's was too hard to resist.

Bill Cable

[quote]Is Steve Rally gay?

Honey...puhlaize!

He's a fucking clone.

damn, Bill Cable is hot!!

Ed Barnard

This guy is more the DL type because he looks gayish.

So many of the pre 1990 centerfolds are a huge turn on for me. These were the guys I lusted after as a teenager and hooked up with in college in the late 80s.

Ed Barnard looks so much like a hot dude I hooked up with a few times. The kind of guy that would meet me after a long day of work and still smell so amazing. LOL

Another gay one for the DL demographic.

[quote]Ed Barnard looks so much like a hot dude I hooked up with a few times.

Lucky you.

Too handsome for DL.

R119, Bill Cable was besties with Christian Brando.

Jim Brown's Playgirl layout did it for me.

LOVE the full pubic snatches

Christopher Atkins Playgirl layout is literally my favourite male nudes of all time..And I’ve been a huge connoisseur of much more explicit gay porn for decades.Doesn’t matter,I still jack off to his layout because:

-Some of the best ass shots in PG history(I love man ass) -I love blondes and blonde pubes.And blonde twunks.He embodies that for me. -Because of Blue Lagoon he was one celebrity that I’d actually heard of prior to his layout.I already had a big crush on him.And I found it a turn on that someone already famous would pose nude. -I love that he’s staring into the camera,looking at the viewer/voyeur in each shot.The look in his eyes seems to be saying:”I know you want me.I know you want to fuck me”.Huge turn on that! -I love that in the pool shot you can see the shadow of his dick.You could use your imagination. -I loved that a gay man took those photos-Greg Gorman.Much more homoerotic. -And lastly,mainly because looking at those photos brings me back to the summer of 1982, a great time in my life when I was 18 years old and had my whole life ahead of me.Ah nostalgia!

I also loved the John Matuszak layout.My 2nd favourite layout.Big meaty butt-yum!

Playgirl in the early years never showed erections, only flaccid penises. That Onassis woman sent my name in as a subscription to the magazine as a joke. Everyone in Gettysburg got a laugh from it, except me. I'm glad now I hid her fucking wheelchair when she visited the White House.

I saved those annual special issues of Playgirl and many years later sold them on eBay for some nice coin.

Lol at the caption in R29's Horst Wagenbauer pic

"Most Extreme Measure in Playgirl History."

There were definitely some horses in Playgirl, but I remember it not being the norm - there were more average, even small-ish dicks.

You have to remember that in the early days of Playgirl it was looked down upon to pose nude. Thats why the pickings were slim and they used a lot of gay models. People in the 70s and 80s werent wannabe pornstars and instagram hos. There was no social media. Porn was not mainstream.

R66, it’s amazing that pictorial was shot in 1977. It’s timeless. Paul Vonderlin was quite handsome and hot. Most of the 70’s Playgirl spreads are extremely dated and have a grungy look.

Nude was fine for females doing porn or whatever aimed as straight males. Men who posed nude even as "artists models" were often viewed with suspicion.

As Playgirl's reputation grew into basically soft porn for gay men the stigma only increased; it wasn't until the thing achieved some sort of legitimacy (but not much) that things changed much.

Remember by the 1980's and 1990's you saw the rise of male models or actors being lusted after and promoted same as females had for generations.

As noted above Tracy James rode that wave far as it could go. Ditto for Antonio Sabato Jr. , Mark Wahlberg, Michael Bergin , Marcus Schenkenberg and scores of others. Television shows like Baywatch helped promote the whole "himbo" culture as well.

Truth to tell beefcake photos and films had been around since 1940's or so. Everyone knew (including the models) the main target audience (and it wasn't fitness buffs), for all those handsome, hot and muscular young men posing. Some tried to claim the moral high ground claiming they truly were straight and only did those pictures to promote culture of physical fitness or body building. Fine, whatever helps you get to sleep at night....

Playgirl like Cosmo and similar magazines began to slide once gay men had other outlets for porn in rise of internet era.

Guys who wouldn't (for their own various personal reasons) do Playgirl or whatever, did International Male or Undergear catalogs. Everyone with an ounce of brains knew who a good part of target market was; but since there wasn't full nudity a guy could have it on his C.V. without any negative associations.

[R134]Yes it was the late70’s/early 80’s when lusting openly after a man became more excepted.Even,kind of,for gay men.Playgirl deserves a lot of credit for that.Also that’s when Chippendales took off.Disco..Richard Gere and all those nude scenes.”Buns” calendars.Beefcake shows on TV like For Ladies Only and the Making of A Male Model.The Blue Lagoon.What was mostly underground before became mainstream almost overnight.It was a heady time for The Gays.Sexual liberation for all was in the air!Then AIDS put a serious damper on all of it of course.

[quote]Most of the 70’s Playgirl spreads are extremely dated and have a grungy look.

I guess they don't look all scrubbed and shaved with short, tight little haircuts, every hair in place which is how you and the modern gays like you seem to like it. Cookie cutter gym bodies all looking exactly the same.

All this nonsense that gays like straight guys is total nonsense.

From above link:

"George Maharis (actor, July 1973 centerfold): [First editor-in-chief Marin Scott Milam] asked whether I'd do a centerfold. Nobody told me it was a nude centerfold! But I was game.We were doing the shooting and [the photographer kept saying], "Well, you can't show that." I said, "For Christ's sake, man, if it's gonna be a nude centerfold, that's what I was born with."Marin called and said, "The one that I chose shows a bit of… you." I don't know how many they printed, but they got a call for so many more that they turned everybody face-forward after that."

"Lorenzo Lamas (actor, July 1983, November 1993, and May 1996 covers): I was approached to do a centerfold for Playgirl when I was a trainer at Jack LaLanne Health Spa in 1976. My girlfriend at the time agreed to be in the pictorial. It was pretty no-holds-barred. The photographer was a client of mine. He said there was a chance to win $2,500. When I was 18, that was more money than I made in a year. We shot it. I told my dad, [MGM star] Fernando Lamas. He went through the roof and got a sharp attorney who went to Playgirl and said they could not release the photos. They said, "We have a contract," but the attorney said, "I don't care. It has the potential of ruining whatever clean-cut image he has as an actor." The lawyer got the negatives. I think she showed my dad the pictures and he burned them. My dad thought the magazine targeted gays. He thought that would be harmful to me. [Lamas's covers all followed his father's 1982 death.] "

For R136

"David Vance (photographer, 1974–88): It was fairly easy to get people to pose nude right off the street. I only remember one model who was reluctant to show his penis. The majority were people who didn't work out at all. They just were well proportioned. Now, every 12-year-old has abs. Also: "Gone are the days of stories on breast cancer and marital rape, and interviews with Maya Angelou. Today, Playgirl.com is largely targeted to gay readers."At the end of the day, we all know the end [of the print incarnation] is near," says Playgirl's current vice president of marketing, Daniel Nardicio. "It's the law of diminishing returns." Part of what hurt Playgirl was something the magazine itself had pioneered: the normalization of male nudity. Posing nude wouldn't necessarily hurt an actor's career anymore, says Nardicio. And they could also exploit their nudity in far more lucrative or attention-grabbing platforms."

Playgirl published monthly from 1973 to 2009, then quarterly from 2010 until folding in 2016.

Do the sums; 36 years x 12 issues per comes out to round 432 issues in total. That is a whole lot of centerfolds and other nude male pictorials. Yet even an exhaustive "WHET" search turns up relatively few Playgirl models. Ones you do find are those who were actors or otherwise famous then or became so afterwards. The rest seem to have largely faded back into obscurity.

I like it

Shame Playgirl never lured Joey Luft into doing a pictorial back in the early 80s.

Wasn't Adam Rich supposed to pose?

R137, Given Lorenzo Lamas' huge ego, surely at least one or two shots from his Playgirl shoot survived Fernando's burning.

I recall Fernando bragging to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show that Lorenzo called him one night just to brag that he was calling from the bed of two twin sisters.

R141, I'd rather it were Grant Goodeve.

Even at 60 Lorenzo Lamas was still rather hot.

Go back to R11 Bill Cables pic and you'll see the lady is none other than Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira who was his girlfriend at the time.

Maybe Fernado was embarrassed as Lorenzo in his autobiography told a story of how he was sleeping on the couch one night and Dad came out of the bedroom hard with what he described as the biggest dick he ever saw. Apparently Lorenzo didn't inherit it.

R145, Arlene Dahl, Lorenzo's mother via Fernando, has said that former husband Lex Barker had the biggest cock she's ever seen.

I think Lex Barker was also once married to Lana Turner, a known size queen

LOL the idiot at R89 and R91 thinks those thirty year old pictures are new.

Let’s all laugh at the idiot.

R147 Yes, and Lex molested Lana's daughter. He was a pedophile.

I really liked Andre Herbert.

my mom read it

R151 Those are some weird poses they had him in.

Me too, R150.

R150 they tried shooting those photos, but the background just overwhelmed the images of Joey.

whoops, that was supposed to be R140.

R145 . . .

"Suddenly, Dad appears right behind me. I turn and look. He is standing there naked with a huge erection. Never in my life have I seen anything like it. I am this seven-year-old kid, a guest in my father’s home. Still learning the ways of the world. Still trying to figure things out. And now my father is standing there as if nothing is wrong, his corn dog sticking in my face as I try not to stare. “Hey, amigo,” he says, “you must be getting hungry.” I avert my eyes away from Dad’s big salami. “Yeah, a little,” I mumble. I’ve watched National Geographic specials and stared at enough pictures in magazines to know what penises look like. Dad’s, however, is beyond my comprehension. I add, “I was wondering when you guys were going to come out.” Dad carries on like we are having a normal conversation, as if nothing is out of the ordinary as his flagpole still stands at attention. “We took a swim, amigo,” he says matter-of-factly. “Esther is taking a shower and then she is going to start dinner.” I can only think of one thing: “Wow, is that the way I am going to be? I hope so!” The fact Dad is so well endowed makes me realize later why women loved him and put up with his shenanigans. As the years went on, I never mentioned the incident of the erection or its effect on me."

sexy daddies

R38....hot!

I fucked this one.

R159 Who is that? His ass is weird looking.

^Never mind. Just saw that it's Levi.

[quote]Kathy Griffin

You spelled Todd Palin wrong

The Levi Johnson layout deserves to be an entry in that Trump rally flop thread.What an overhyped dud that was!I wouldn’t have minded the only ass shots if he’d at least have had a nice ass.Or if he was posed with a shred of sensuality.

Andre Hubert hailed from New Orleans and also did gay porn (Colt, Raging Stallion), so you can find quite a bit of his work out there.

Anyone remember this guy? I thought it was so hot, becaues he looked SMART. Intelligence is such a turn-on.

R165 Oh, yeah! Harry Potter all grown up!

R165 i loved that look

Brandon Court, March 1983.

David Grant

Jim Davis, December 1981

Who knew the creator of Garfield got his start posing in the buff, R170.

r169 David Grant is gay porn star (from the very early days) Clay Russell.

I love how all the "DL faves" look as gay as Christmas -

and that's how it SHOULD be.

Poor George Maharis, this wasn't the kind of PR he wanted.

My roommate in my freshman year was like R165, good looking face, hairy chest, nice cock, big bush, hairy legs. He wore eyeglasses with thick black frames. Nerdy and sexy as hell. He would walk around the room naked for about half an hour each morning. He wasn't concerned I could see him this way. I had to bundle my blanket on top of my rigid cock every morning. I was terrified to suggest I was enjoying it. It was 1978, not the right era to suggest some fun.

I knew a 70-year-old man about twenty years ago who had the entire Playgirl collection. He bought it at an auction. He told me Lorenzo Lamas did appear in one of those "Men of select a city" layouts. He wasn't identified, but he was full-frontal. Same thing with Richard Gere. He was in one of the "Men of this theme" layouts, again not identified, and full-frontal.

They used to publish a "Men of "this college league" layout every year. One of those men is/was a well-recognized company executive now, according to him.

He was an expert on Playgirl magazine. I wanted to ask him if we could pull out some of those magazines when I visited him. I've had my share of horned-up "friends" who wanted to serve me dinner back then; I was afraid this guy might be one of them if he got too aroused by the magazines. He died five years ago. His family swooped in after he was dead and pillaged his home. I wouldn't doubt the magazines ended up in a recycled bin or burned in a fire.

So, if any of you have a collection, look through it. You might be surprised at who will see.

I usually don't go for hairless guys, but I remember loving this guy's ass. I think his name is fake or he's not from the US as I couldn't find and current info on him.

I had a nearly complete collection of Playgirl magazines for a period of ten years (pretty much the 90s). I had almost forgotten about them (they were in a box that I never unpacked the last time I moved two decades ago).

I ended up just tossing them. Part of me thinks I could have and should have offered them up for sale... individually by year or something. But I just couldn't be bothered.

[quote]I knew a 70-year-old man about twenty years ago who had the entire Playgirl collection. He bought it at an auction. He told me Lorenzo Lamas did appear in one of those "Men of select a city" layouts. He wasn't identified, but he was full-frontal. Same thing with Richard Gere. He was in one of the "Men of this theme" layouts, again not identified, and full-frontal.

Nah.

Lorenzo Lamas did Playgirl covers in:

May 1996, (Hollywood's Randy Renegade, Only On Woman Can Come Between Him and His Harley)

November 1993, (Renegade Lover Repents)

Renegade was a television show that ran from 1992-1997 starring Lorenzo Lamas

July 1983 (with Heather Locklear in "Very Bare Swimwear")

None of these layouts IIRC contained any frontal nudity. Swimwear and the obligatory shirt off or unbuttoned yes, but not the full Monty.

Just to round this out...

Richard Gere - cover June 1985 (Life As The Most Desired Man Alive)

Richard Gere - cover May 1983 "An X-Clusive Exclusive Special - With Photos That Will Leave You "Breathless"

Breathless was the 1983 film release staring Richard Gere. Again no tackle out.

Geraldo Rivera

James Brolin

Sylvester Stallone

Don Johnson

Christopher Reeve

Ted Danson

Mark Harmon

Marky Mark

Warren Beatty

Dustin Hoffman

Antonio Sabato Jr.

And many more.... But nearly if not all the famous kept their clothes on. That or at least you didn't get tackle out/full Monty. Things like that famous Burt Reynolds spread ....

More

Think women (famous or otherwise) have or had no problems posing partially or fully nude for men's magazines because they were just that. Target audience was largely assured and natural. OTOH nearly from the start Playgirl had a reputation of having a gay male following, something that only grew.

I'm trying to think of *any* famous person who showed cock.

I thought maybe one of the soap guys eventually did, but they also had clauses in their contracts that could get them fired if they did something that was considered a breach of propriety, so obviously most would not.

Was Playgirl also where whatshisface from Duran Duran with the enormous dong was?

R183 George Maharis showed his cock in Playgirl.

Jim Brown showed his.

Fabian showed his.

R184 Thanks. I knew it was a relatively short list.

R185 Yes, it's a pretty short list, but I'm sure there were others.

Christopher George was a TV actor.

How can you forget about Sam J. Jones?

Ah yes, Flash Gordon. I actually spilled a load or two to that issue!

Yes R188, that’s the one I was trying to remember.

Sam had NOTHING to be shy about, for sure!

R184, Peter Lupus and his big cock were honored with a large poster you could assemble in the year end issue.

R191, great smile, full bush, what's not to like?

No pics of Sam's ass, though.

[R191]: Anyone know what's become of Sam??

[quote] Anyone know what's become of Sam??

Age is a bitch

R195 Sam continues to work regularly, mostly in low budget action films.

He played himself in the movie "Ted," and he was freaking hilarious, spoofing himself and his "Flash Gordon" character.

He still looks good, too.

R183 Don Stroud showed his cock in Playgirl, too.

R183 Steve Bond from General Hospital let it all hang out, too, although he actually posed before he became famous.

Damn, I lusted after him!

Rocco. I went through several bottles of lotion as a teen over him.

R200 Rocco was beautiful in his prime before he became a drugged out, sex addicted freak.

A big revelation was Andrew Prince in that other magazine. And by big I mean huge.

Joe Peppitone posed for yet another magazine. Nice body and cock.

R202 The other major "magazine for women" was Viva. Did Joe Peppitone pose for that one? I remember he had quite the long cock.

I think you mean Andrew Prine. And yes, he had a big, thick cock.

R204 Big Joe! Hated the hair, loved the cock.

Man, he was hot when he was younger.

R206 Yum! Joe is the living example of Big Dick Face.

he knew how to handle a big bat

[quote] I think you mean Andrew Prine.

Yes, thank you. Damn autocorrect.

R203, Andrew Prine was romantically involved with starlet Karyn Kupcinet, daughter of talk show host Irv Kupcinet.

She was found murdered by strangulation in November of 1963 and Andrew Prine was for a time a prime suspect.

Her murder was never solved and Andrew was never charged.

R210 Did he strangle her with his giant cock?

Apparently horsecocked Joe Pepitone posed nude in something called Foxy Lady, not Viva or Playgirl.

papi!

Once Playgirl became all gay porn stars and shaved strippers, it went downhill fast.

It was at its best when it seemed like they were normal, every-day guys. "Real Men" as it were.

R214 I used to love the "College Men" special issues. They'd go to college campuses and recruit young, horny, athletic guys looking to show off the goods and make a buck or two for tuition and books.

Some of the hottest guys came from the pages of those issues.

R213 Love the body and the cock, but not the ass tattoo. Why?

[R199]LOVED the Steve Bond pictorial after it was re-issued when he got famous.I even loved his humiliation in the press as a result.

R199 That picture of him sitting on the grass with his shorts tossed aside and his dick resting on his leg still turns me on.

R199 here’s a nice one of Mr. Bond.

R219 Oh, yes. Such a hot man.

Apparently, he's now some kind of religious whacko.

He's Jewish. He was born Shlomo Goldberg in Israel in 1953.

Steve Bond was in some movie recently and he clearly is an older man but still looked good.

Here's Steve a couple of years ago:

R223 He does say in the article that "the dear Lord led him in another direction," so he sounds like he's gone all God Squad on us.

Another hot guy succumbs to big dick guilt. *sigh*

Steve Bond today...well, 2 years ago...hes has work done, but its good work...hes 67

Here's a larger picture of Joe Pepitone. I still remember his baseball cards from the 60s and 70s.

R226 Love that big cock! I bet he loved parading it around in the locker room.

Playgirl planned a pictorial without full-nudity. Don Stroud was angry about that. He wanted to go full-frontal. He insisted on it.

This from "special" Playgirl issue they published periodically:

Good for Don! Let that cock fly free!

What do we know about him?

John Gibson

R231 He was Vanna White's fiancee. Died in a plane crash in 1987.

And he was on The Young and the Restless for a bit, playing a male stripper.

[R225]Steve Bond looks fantastic for his age!I’d fuck him.

Wow, John Gibson was enormous!

R235 I bet he really lit up Vanna's panels.

R234 Get in line!

Happy to see John Gibson was early to the ball-shaving party. Much more appealing

R238 He was a Chippendale's dancer, so I'm sure he had to groom appropriately for the job.

The Chippendales dancers don't show their balls.

Ooh, beefy football Playgirler Jonathan Howard made a jackoff video!

I missed my calling. I should have been a photographer for Playgirl. How did they get these gigs? A guy willing, ready and able to let you look at his naked body for a couple of hours? And you get paid for it? Damn.

I remember I had a friend who was a fluffer on a Playgirl shoot. A gurl. She said it was a turn-on.

R240 Not onstage, maybe, but after the show's over and those horny ladies still have a wad of cash,,,

This sexy 70s surfer turned me on.

Another vote or Brian Buzzini. Even though looking at his pictorial now after not having seen it for so many years, he is good looking, yes, but not overwhelmingly so like he was in 1987.

Buzzini is on FB and looks decent for being 60ish or near it.

I couldn't believe when this guy John Holliday in the 90s had a raging boner! I hadn't seen one in there before and it blew my teenage mind.

I'd sneak the magazine inside of another one at the mall to glare at, hoping nobody noticed, haha

R248 That guy had a beautiful thick dick.

Brian Buzzini always reminded me of a more Ken Dollish Dirk Shafer

Dirk was way sexier to me with his wall to wall chest hair and rough skin

John Holliday did a video for Playgirl called Hunks in Hedonism

Every copy I’ve seen has awful video quality, but it’s worth it just to see John’s humongous dick flopping around

Is this what you're talking about, R251?

More of Holliday -- I love how red-faced he got, it made him seem really legitimately horny while taking the photos

lucky hammock

Yes that's the video but the scene is much longer

Wow! He's huge!

Hunks in Hedonism. Excerpt.

Julian Rios

Julian Fantechi

R258

AKA Julian Andretti, Julian Ruiz, Jordan Rivers....

Playgirl just kept digging themselves deeper into a hole featuring all those gay or straight porn models, especially when they began showing full erections. It just cemented their reputation in many minds PG was targeted largely to gays, which in turn began to hurt sales to women who were supposed to be their main target audience.

R260

Remember the scandal around Julian Fantechi when his PG spread appeared. IIRC he was teaching at some NYC (public?) school and of course many parents (especially fraus) were upset and wondered if Mr. Fantechi's modeling work set the proper example for impressionable young minds.

FB doesn't allow hotlinking, but you can easily find JF's Facebook page by doing a search. Last updated 3 May 2020, and he still looks pretty good.

R258 I had such a crush on Julian then. That was before he covered his entire beautiful body in tattoos. Tragic.

Found it, and was right, JF did have some flack from public school parents about his "modeling".

Guy is a big BLM supporter and splits his time between NYC and San Diego; so you west coast girls head to a beach and start stalking.

R241 Howard is stunning. I’m a Facebook friend of his. Married with two kids I believe.

wowsers

I was young! I was stupid! I needed the money! They told me girls bought that magazine!

I was young! I was stupid! I needed the money! They told me girls bought that magazine!

John Holliday caught a little heat from the police department he worked for.

I wonder if John Holliday has any lower backs problems now. The physics of holding up his generous gift must be taxing.

I'll bet every girl in his high school and college knew about his endowment. No one could keep a secret about that.

[quote]John Holliday caught a little heat from the police department he worked for.

I'm sure they were jealous.

I remember Australia's Rogers Brothers appeared in the first year of Playgirl's run. The story made the major newspapers at the time. They both competed in swimming in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

What’s it like when you have a bigger dick than your brother? He has a bigger bush than you do? Do you notice? Are you jealous? Do you brothers talk about it?

The Rogers have some physical differences, particularly beneath their swimming suits. They’re there for all to see. Being together naked on a beach or in a locker room, is it awkward?

Barry Hostetler

Peter Speach

R272 Considering the Playgirl spread of the Rogers brothers, I think that we can safely assume that they weren’t awkward being naked together. It was the Seventies - people were much more relaxed about being naked in those days.

I always liked Barry Hostetler. Strong features, buff body, that bush is perfection.

Mmmmm, I need some Speach therapy.

Peter Speach centerfold.

R264, please don't narc to him about the video. His longtime fans need to see his erudite masturbatory skills.

R279, you are so cool.

The Rogers brothers made me think of the cute Hee Haw twins who posed nude for Playgirl. They didn't show cock, though.

R279 why would I say anything to him? That clip is a gold mine. He doesn’t answer questions or deletes them from his Facebook about his nudity filled past. He’s a bit of a narcissistic lunkhead, but I would be too looking like that.

Brian Buzzini was on Judge Judy in the early ‘90s. I wish that his appearance was available on YouTube.

No love for Lou Zivkovich, Playgirl's Man of the Year for 1975?

He was the Phys. Ed. instructor who was fired after his school board found his posing inappropriate.

R284 Oh, hell, yes, I have love for Lou:

Such a fucking sexy stud

[quote]Brian Buzzini was on Judge Judy in the early ‘90s.

Did he sue someone, or someone sue him?

Half the cocks you're looking at are probably dead, now.

and your point?

It's icky.

Too bad he's a nasty old deplorable.

Who is, r291?

r290, we aren't looking for dates, dearie, it's just reminiscing

Lou Zivcovich, r292

Steve Bond, who played Jimmy Lee Holt on General Hospital. I had the biggest crush on him and couldn’t believe my luck when I found out he’d posed for Playgirl.

Lou Z is hot. Reminds me of the hairy Italian swim coach we had. That coach, and his insanely furry torso, was all part of my....shall we say, awakening.

BIG furry bushes

If I had had a gym teacher like Zou, I'd have shown up for class every day.

R296, Lou is alive and presumably well at age 79.

Here's an update on his pictorial repercussions . . .

In his photospread, (taken during an expense paid trip to Hawaii), the muscular and hirsute Zivkovich displayed his 6'4" 216 lb. physique—46" chest and 35" waist—in a series of shots which consistently featured full-frontal nudity. There were no erections and no rear-view shots.

Copies of the magazine quickly became something of a collector's item and even sparked brief talk of an acting career for Zivkovich. (He played a supporting role in a McMillan and Wife episode which aired on October 26, 1975.)

However, there were unfortunate ramifications. The high school in Apple Valley, California, where Zivkovich worked as a phys-ed teacher fired him, charging that his appearance in a nude centerfold showed he was not a proper role model for students. Many of these students as well as fellow teachers then came to the defense of Zivkovich who stated: "I don't see anything wrong with a nude body that is a work of art." The case went to a state appeals panel which admonished Zivkovich for a "mistake in judgment" but ruled in March 1975 that he could not be fired.

One year later, in March 1976, Zivkovich—along with a bevy of musclemen—appeared with Mae West in a CBS TV special titled "Dick Cavett's Backlot USA." Mae West's biographer, Simon Louvish, describes Zivkovich at this point as being Mae West's "frequent escort."

When I was in 5th grade, it was discovered that our art teacher had posed for Playboy a few years earlier under a different name. Apparently, a parent had found her nude spread and contacted the school principal. She was fired and the school district sent a letter to all the parents informing them that they had taken care of the issue.

Even as a 10-year old, that really pissed me off. Number one, because I really liked that art teacher, and number two, because a parent was reading Playboy and had probably jacked off to her pictorial before wiping the cum off his stomach and contacting the school to express his disgust over her displaying her tits.

This was way back in 1972. Today, she could've sued the school district and probably gotten a big fat settlement which would have allowed her to buy her own art studio.

Lou is on FB....let me tell you, preserve your memories and do NOT look at his page.

R301 Well, of course, now that you've said that, I'm forced to look!

Hey, we all get old. Lou's practically 80. I had no expectation that he was still going to be some hot piece of ass. I'm thankful he graced us with his beautiful body and cock back in the day and preserved that exquisite moment in time.

I do feel sorry that he went through all the shit with his teaching job just because he showed off his that fine physique, though. I hope he's living a content, worry-free life now.

The old is one thing. The bad toupee and Andy Rooney style eyebrows, tho.......

R301, According to his FB posts, he had a foot amputated in December of 2018 due to a "sudden infection".

R304 Also known the diabetes.

Definitely one of my favorites:

R306 As Julianne Moore said in "Boogie Nights," "This is a giant cock."

julianne Moore, seriously

R306 I’ve always called him Max Weiner. Beautiful big hairy cock. Lots of jo material for me when I was 17. I remember that Playgirl, and his cock was as big as his head in the centerfold.

R287, I don't remember if Brian Buzzini was a plaintiff or defendant. I do remember that Judge Judy spared him none of her sharp tongue. I taped it, so I'll have to see if it remains in my idle collection of hundreds of tapes, waiting to be played - if not disintegrated, by now - on a combo tv/vcr I still have.

Brian's 58 and still looking good:

liking this daddy from a 70s issue

R312 He was always one of my favorites.

seventies guys had it going on

distracted by the hair but W O W

another wow. Eddie Bloom

[quote]Was Playgirl also where whatshisface from Duran Duran with the enormous dong was?

That's Warren Cuccurullo. he posed for Brazilian G Magazine

HUGE hardon

R315, I'm embarrassed to admit that I shoplifted that particular issue after seeing his layout.

I didn't have the nerve to face the cashier with it.

BTW, I found and still find his hair gorgeous.

Eddie Bloom is so hot! Can't believe I've never seen him before.

R320 I remember when I first saw that picture of him on the edge of his bed, pulling his shirt up over his head, huge cock hanging down, and I think I drooled all over the page.

After seeing Lou Zivkovich's photo spread, I looked at all of the male teachers I liked in high school and wondered what they looked like naked. I imagined cocks and balls and major bush. It's a good thing I could pay attention to two things at one time. I would have flunked out otherwise.

Doug Koziak

More Doug Koziak

Handsome Dennis Ward

Darren Fox

Darren Fox is one of my favorites. So clean cut, nice smile, not vain enough to groom his bush, the guy you want your daughter to date.

From Lou's Facebook, under details about Lou:

"single 33 years did not like married life too routine,love dating women from around the world,overtime of my life I am dating 3 times a week,viva la Viagra."

Wonder if ever "dated" Melania?

R327, Or son.

[quote] Darren Fox is one of my favorites. So clean cut, nice smile, not vain enough to groom his bush, the guy you want your daughter to date.

They get DL in nursing homes now?

R330 They get DL in halfway houses now?

Bob Hostetler also appeared in Foxy Lady magazine, a competitor of Playgirl which didn't last a year. This picture defined masculinity for me when I was a teenager in the 70s.

R332 That's a fat cock. Love it!

Horst is still king of the fat cocks

Who's the queen, R334?

John Carlos Londono

Yum!

R337 He's awful prrrrty.

John Paul was the first nude centerfold after Playgirl abandoned its "no full nudity" position in 1987. That policy didn't last a year. John Paul had a photo shoot ready for publication if the "no nude" rules continued. They went back to shoot his nudes after the magazine returned to its former self, and he was that first nude centerfold.

Jockstrap

There's a moron here who can't copy/paste a link into a box?

Jesus.

R337, he looks awfully surly. That one smile seems almost sarcastic.

R342, but he has amazing balls...

Doug Chapman

[R311]: Brian Buzzini looks great.

R341, Some DLers are currently not allowed to post links.

really?

Hubba hubba, love the tan line, now tan lines go down below the knees.

r341 Sowwy.

R348 That side view shot of his butt is a thing of beauty.

Excuse me, as I must lock myself in my boudoir with this thread for a spell.

I found this issue when I saw it in the open trash bag in a housekeeper's cart at a hotel. I probably shouldn't have put my hand in a grocery bag, but I was young and stupid, and a horny teenager. I managed to hide it in my coat until we returned to our room, then I placed it under the bed. Overnight, I took it to the bathroom. I hoped the cover model was naked, and it looked like he was hairy.

When I opened the pages, I think I got lightheaded. He was better than I imagined. I cam on the bathroom floor, unaided, when I opened the four-panel centerfold. I sneaked it into my suitcase and successfully hid it for the rest of the vacation. Of course I looked at it more that week. Often. I didn't think I could make myself cum so much in a week. I threw it away, with a bunch of other stuff, when I left home for college a couple of years later. I didn't want to leave any evidence I was gay if my parents ever cleaned out my room.

plump half hard

Lou would look much better if he got a better wig and trimmed his eyebrows.

True, all old men get those Andy Rooney Caterpillar eyebrows.

I like the eyebrows

We're not talking about the ones in the magazine R356. There's a sad photo of Lou on his FB page with a crooked toupee and two huge angry caterpillars where his eyebrows should be.

I can't get enough of old men

r358 Move to Palm Springs. You'll be in heaven.

How did this happen and more importantly why?

R358, Happy Birthday, Olivia.

R360 I think half of the DL just exploded.

This thread has just made me incredibly horny.

[R85]BronzeAgeGuy,

I LOVED The Tooz’s layout as well!He singlehandedly caused me to expand my sexual fantasy repertoire to include bear-types.I had found him sexy in Caveman and I couldn’t even really explain why.I had only really liked pretty-boy types before then.But there was just something about him.When his Playgirl issue came out I was ecstatic.That ass!When I jacked off to him I used to dream about rimming that big ass.If he’d only known!

My other favourite celeb layout was Christopher Atkins.I know, total opposite in every way.What can I say?I’m a man of wide-ranging taste 😊.