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FEATURED ISSUES

A snapshot of some of our most iconic issues–and cover stars.

December August October January

May July July / August Winter

Inside the Playboy Mansion

In a deliciously escapist photo essay, famed journalist Bill Zehme guides PLAYBOY readers on an exclusive tour of the Playboy Mansion. Among his discoveries: pajama parties, peacocks (yes, the Mansion was home to a private zoo) and many a Playmate. Part home, part office and part year-round party venue, the fabled landmark comes to life for readers through behind-the-scenes photos, private scrapbooks and anecdotes from Mansion regulars.

Hop Into Our Heritage

70 years of pleasure and progress, on and off the pages of the magazine.

Once a Playmate, Always a Playmate

Once a Playmate, Always a Playmate Five Playmates star in a historic pictorial that celebrates the vast range of womanhood.

Diamond Days

Diamond Days

To celebrate 60 years of the iconic Bunny, we asked more than a dozen Bunnies—and one Rabbit—to take a hop with us down memory lane.

Defying the Anti-Porn Police

Defying the Anti-Porn Police

Is sex a menace to society? Recent social media purges are eerily evocative of a Reagan-era attempt to censor PLAYBOY.

WE WON’T GO BACK

We Won't Go Back

For more than half a century, Playboy has championed reproductive autonomy–in these pages, in the courts, and on the streets.

Hare Force One

Hare Force One

The Playboy empire hit cruising altitude in the early 1970s with Big Bunny, Playboy’s luxury jetliner.

Rabbit Tales

Rabbit Tales

From Warhol’s Factory to a Texas highway to a research lab at MIT, the Rabbit Head has inspired artists of every ilk from every corner of the globe for 65 years and counting.

Playmate First Class: Jo Collins in Vietnam

In 1966, Playboy’s December 1964 Playmate and 1965 Playmate of the Year, aptly nicknamed G.I. Jo, delivered a lifetime subscription of PLAYBOY magazine to the front lines in South Vietnam. Thanks to special government clearance, Collins delivered the magazine, and a much needed morale boost, to the officers of Company B, who had specifically requested her attendance in a letter to the PLAYBOY Editors.

Playmates

Once a Playmate, always a Playmate–get to know our most important brand ambassadors.

Jayne Mansfield

Jayne Mansfield February 1955

Gwen Wong

April 1967

Marilyn Cole

Marilyn Cole January 1972

Kimberly Conrad

Kimberly Conrad January 1988

Pamela Anderson

Pamela Anderson February 1990

Brande Roderick

Brande Roderick April 2000

Jordan Emanuel

Jordan Emanuel Nov/Dec 2018

Anita Pathammavong

Anita Pathammavong March 2020

Celebrity Pictorials

Iconic beauties who have graced our pages.

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe December 1953

Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian December 2007

Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell December 1999

Stormy Daniels

Stormy Daniels Winter 2019

Jeanie Buss

Jeanie Buss

Cindy Crawford

Cindy Crawford

A Testament of Hope

In January of 1969 PLAYBOY published a piece that would come to stand the test of time: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s essay A Testament of Hope , the civil rights leader’s final published statement prior to his murder in the spring of 1968. The urgent missive has since become one of the world’s most powerful writings on nonviolence, policy, Black nationalism and humanity itself.

The Playboy Interview

Seven decades of candid conversation with the world’s most legendary cultural figures.

Miles Davis

Miles Davis September 1962

David Bowie

David Bowie September 1976

Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton October 1978

John Lennon and Yoko Ono

John Lennon and Yoko Ono January 1981

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs February 1985

Donald Trump

Donald Trump March 1990

Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan September 1992

Kanye West

Kanye West March 2006

John Mayer

John Mayer March 2010

Cecile Richards

Cecile Richards May / June 2018

The Transformation of Tula

In 1981, on the heels of her appearance in the pages of PLAYBOY to celebrate her role as a Bond girl in For Your Eyes Only, fashion model Caroline “Tula” Cossey was outed as a transgender woman by the tabloids. Nearly a decade later, Tula returned to PLAYBOY to share her story–on her terms–and to pose for another pictorial, marking the first solo pictorial for an openly transgender woman in PLAYBOY.

20Q

One personality. 20 provocative questions. Uncensored tête-à-têtes with the tastemakers who are driving pop culture.

20 Questions: Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston

20 Questions: Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan March 1997

MAREN MORRIS

Maren Morris Summer 2019

Chloe Sevigny

Chloe Sevigny January 2011

20 Questions: Koko

December 1986

HALSEY

September / October 2017

20 Questions: Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino November 1994

20 Questions: Halle Berry

Halle Berry March 1994

The Erotic World of Salvador Dali

In the early 1970s, PLAYBOY asked surrealist genius Salvador Dalí to conceptualize his erotic fantasies, then dispatched staff photographer Pompeo Posar to the small Spanish village of Cadaqués to help the artist realize them. Featuring an unexpected medley of oversized eggs, ancient architecture, and a bevy of nude models, the outrageous mise-en-scène is perhaps one of the strangest, yet most delightful, pictorials in Playboy history.

Playboy Advisor

From grope suits to spanking etiquette, our sex-positive advice column has been satisfying curious readers on matters of the heart, the body and the bedroom for generations.