Playboy just named its first openly gay editor-in-chief. He wants to change the brand’s pornographic reputation amid a ‘sex recession’
Phillip Picardi is taking charge of one of media’s most hetero-centric magazines—and it’s not as antithetical as it sounds. Few media brands scream “straight” quite like Playboy. Since the 1950s, the men’s lifestyle magazine has been best known for its photos of nude and scantily clad women (aka Pl...