“And most of the guys aren’t that interested in the money.

“You’d be surprised how many of them are encouraged to do it pose nude by their mothers,” he said. He said it is easy for Playgirl to find men willing to pose nude, so the magazine feels no need to pay larger fees. The issue revolves around the law of supply and demand, Richardson said. A man who poses for Playgirl makes $1,000 these days and has far fewer spinoff opportunities. He said that a woman who poses for a Playboy centerfold usually makes $10,000, and may make many times that amount through movies and advertising. “We have guys who would pay us to be on the cover,” said Richardson in a telephone interview from the magazine’s offices in Santa Monica, Calif. “For them, the name of the game is money.”īut for many of the men who strip for Playgirl, ego is the No. “They’ve been doing it for a while, and they know the game,” he said.

He said that most female models who pose nude do so mainly for the money. “It’s their own fault,” said Richardson, who also has worked for Playboy. But he said that in general, male models who pose nude do not make as much money as women. Rand Richardson, vice president of Ritter-Geller Communications, which publishes Playgirl, refused to talk specifically about Tony’s case, saying that as far as he knows it still might involve litigation.

Playgirl magazine archives 1983