While initially excited, he realized that what he found was actually an advertisement for Playgirl. Two weeks after an incident in which he lost his bedsheets at a local laundromat after soiling them during a wet dream, Hecox found what he thought was an issue of Playboy.

In the article, set in 2002, Hecox detailed a series of mishaps that occurred when he started puberty at the age of fifteen. Playboy was first referenced in Smosh media in ' Oh, the Joys of Puberty,' a 2002 article written by Ian Hecox. in 2011, who continued the magazine in print until 2016. Blue Horizon sold the rights to Playgirl to Magna Publishing Group, Inc. Playgirl briefly ceased its print version from 2009 to 2010 in favor of its online version, after which it switched from monthly to quarterly. In 2000, Crescent Publishing was consumed by a $200 million federal credit card fraud lawsuit, after which it changed its name to Blue Horizon Media, Inc. after filing for bankruptcy Drake Publishing published Playgirl until it merged with Crescent Publishing Group, Inc. In 1977, Lambert sold the magazine to Ira Ritter, and it was later acquired in 1986 by Drake Publishers, Inc.

It helped advance the sexual revolution for women. The magazine also covered general interest articles, lifestyle and celebrity news, and issues including abortion, breast cancer, and equal rights. Launched by nightclub owner Douglas Lambert in response to erotic men's magazines such as Playboy that featured pictures of women, Playgirl featured pictures of nude and partially nude men and was primarily targeted at women, but maintained a large readership of gay men as well. Playgirl is an American lifestyle magazine that ran in print from June 1973 to December 2016.

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