No, Playgirl.com Did Not Relaunch, And Yes, The Entire Website Is A Sham

Posted November 3, 2015 by Zach with 17 comments

Not that the overwhelming majority of you ever would, but just in case you were thinking about it: Do not ever join the website Playgirl.com. It is terrible, outdated, and 100% garbage, despite the press release sent out last month announcing its return, and despite the ridiculous spate of Cybersocket nominations it received last month—all of which were likely secured thanks to porn star-shaming Playgirl hack and grotesque carnival barker Daniel Nardicio.

Here’s the press release that Playgirl sent out on October 8th, which—other than the mention of its founding date—is one giant lie from start to finish:

Playgirl.com on Thursday announced the re-launch of its flagship site with a complete redesign. Playgirl was founded in 1973 as an answer to Playboy.

“We’re committing ourselves here at Playgirl.com to continue to find the hottest, sexiest guys we can for our readers viewing pleasure,” said Playgirl’s Daniel Nardicio. “As the world of adult entertainment continues to evolve, we are also looking at ways to expand Playgirl into various other formats.

“So many people reach out to me or my office to tell us what their first experience with Playgirl was, and how much it meant to them. We are honored to be a first step in many men and women’s erotic life, and hope to continue the journey with them.”

Also on October 8th? The Cybersocket Award nominations were announced, where Playgirl.com received an inexplicable and completely preposterous seven nods:

Best Mobile Content, Best Video Site, Best Hookup Site/Mobile Hookup App, Best Live Cam Site, Best Content Producer, Best Affiliate Program, Businessperson Of The Year (Nardicio)

Calling this a “sham” would be an insult to actual shams, as the Playgirl.com website is so transparently awful, outdated, and irrelevant, anyone looking at it would easily be able to tell how horrible and undeserving of awards it is. And Cybersocket’s complicity in this ruse is, of course, not a surprise.

Playgirl.com, the Playgirl.com “relaunch,” and Playgirl.com’s Cybersocket nominations are a complete and total farce, and here is exactly what you get if you join Playgirl.com. (Yes, I joined the site and paid the $19.95 so you don’t have to—you’re welcome.)

First, the homepage. This is the first image that comes up. It’s from the November, 2007 Playgirl, which was eight years ago:

To view those Cybersocket award-nominated videos, click the “movies” tab. On the first page, you’ll see that, despite the release date of 9/28/15 (everything seems to be dated 9/28/15, which is not coincidentally one week before the Cybersocket noms were announced), every movie is at least five years old (most are more than 10 years old). Most feature people you’ve either never heard of or people who have retried.

Remember Johnny Castle, Lucky Daniels, Tony Capucci, and Tyler Saint? This is them now (which is actually from seven years ago). Feel old yet?

Click beyond page five (or, the April 2015 content, LOL) and you get to the bulk of the Playgirl.com movie library: Straight porn from the 1990’s and early 2000’s.

Enjoy this sample from “Stairway to Heaven,” featuring a businesswoman with a flip phone:

While “Stairway to Heaven” might appeal to a certain audience (your divorced aunt?), several videos, including “Sexual Cleansing,” simply don’t play, and don’t even seem to be uploaded onto the site:

The “photos” tab is even more embarrassing than the videos tab. Bobby Clark and Brad Benton circa 2008, anyone?

Anyone down for 162 pics of a pre-coke float Dallas Reeves?

Given Playgirl’s rich history of nude male photography, you would think that they could at least have a decent photo library. Think again. There are only 10 pages of models, most of whom weren’t featured in the magazine when Playgirl was still publishing.

It’s one thing to recycle old content and slap a new date on it (many gay porn studios do it all the time), but it takes a lot of sleaze to go out of your way to publicly and blatantly lie about what you’re offering (or not offering, in this case) customers. There is absolutely nothing new on Playgirl.com, so unless you want to watch a 1990’s porn star jerk off in bad lighting, stay away from this website.

Given how miserable and worthless Playgirl.com is, there’s still one thing I haven’t been able to figure out: How in the world did Playgirl.com and Daniel Nardicio come up with the money to buy their seven Cybersocket nominations? Maybe he’s still spending that hot tub scam money?