Playboy
Hefner's men's magazine
Playboy is a men's lifestyle magazine founded in 1953, known for its nude pictorials alongside articles and interviews.
The brand expanded into clubs, merchandise, and media.
Its rabbit-head logo became iconic: He had a Playboy subscription for the articles.
A Playboy Bunny was a waitress at Playboy Clubs, wearing the signature costume with rabbit ears and tail. (Lowercase playboy is a man devoted to pleasure.)
- centerfoldMagazine's removable middle spread
- interviewFormal questioning session
- articlesWritten works or items
- publicationIssued written material
Commercial products offered
Hugh Hefner
- centerfoldMagazine's removable middle spread
- interviewFormal questioning session
- articlesWritten works or items
merchandise
Commercial products offered
waitress
Female restaurant attendant
- costumeClothing for portrayal
- rabbit earsIndoor TV aerial
- bow tieLooped neckwear forming wings
- Men's MediaMaxim, Esquire, GQ, Penthouse, lad mags
- lad magsMaxim, lad mags, centerfolds, cover girls, pinups
- magazinesmagazine, issue, periodical, publication, design magazine
- 1950sEisenhower, poodle skirt, Elvis Presley, Rosa Parks, baby boom
- Rose Cultivars
- Midwest CompaniesMcDonald's, Walgreens, Kellogg's, General Mills, John Deere
Playboyfamily man
Husband devoted to household
monogamist · homebody · straight arrow · steady Eddie · married man
Playboyworking stiff
Ordinary employed person
breadwinner · laborer · workingman · self-made man · grinder
Playboyacademic journal
Peer-reviewed research publication
The New Yorker · The Atlantic · peer-reviewed journal · literary review · scientific journal