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Fifty years of ‘Playgirl’: Soft porn for strong women (and gay men)
In 1973, the magazine changed the rules of the game, opening a window to the female appropriation of the male gaze. ‘The penis is still something forbidden to people and to the Instagram algorithm,’ laments Daniel McKernan, author of ‘Playgirl: The Official History of a Cult Magazine’