As far as we know, this is the only copy of the 1975 Special Portfolio Issue available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright.
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This title is an erotic photography classic. An absolute "must-have" title for Playgirl Magazine and male erotic photography collectors. Many of them will not be equalled much less surpassed. Today, Playgirl is seriously collected throughout the world, as nostalgia for a more innocent, happier time Before The Internet, and for the incomparably beautiful men who graced its pages. Whatever one's feelings about this strategy, it worked brilliantly, and hastened the acceptance of the male nude as no "physique" magazine - before AND after PG - ever could. That fear was effectively extinguished for good by Playgirl Magazine with its "For Women Only" branding - while being fully aware that men constitute a large, unacknowledged audience. While the "physique" magazines of yore scored their fair share of good-looking and well-endowed models, they remained esoteric and could not attract many of the otherwise willing specimens of American male beauty because the latter feared being branded as gay. It is a well-established fact that a significant number, if not a majority, of Playgirl's readers and collectors are men, gay as well as, by open admission, straight, who were looking to compare and size themselves up versus the models, and in the hope of landing on PG's coveted Centerfold, too. Al Cavuoto, John Gibson, and Lou Zivkovich, whose "Life Size Poster" must be detached and assembled piece-by-piece by the reader from the magazine, are the standouts, but among so many others.
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The models, who all appeared in the original issues of Playgirl Magazine in 1975, represent, individually and collectively, some of the handsomest and sexiest men Playgirl Magazine ever discovered and photographed. One of the earliest - and one of the best - portfolios ever published by Playgirl in its history: Page after sexy page of male nudes. Summing up the Banner Year 1975, when the magazine hit its stride after the first two years of innovation. Presents Playgirl Magazine's "The Best: The Year's Best Centerfolds, Discoveries, Fantasies, Fiction" Special Portfolio Issue.
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Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only that sold out upon publication. A near-pristine copy of Playgirl Magazine's 1975 "The Best" Special Portfolio Issue. Los Angeles, CA: Playgirl Magazine, 1975.