About Playboy: Our History, Heritage, Activism and Advocacy

Playboy serves hundreds of millions of people around the world with products and services that inspire better sex, bold style, sophisticated living and confident beauty.  

As the original lifestyle brand, we’ve curated sophistication, art, music and culture for almost seven decades. We’ve entertained. We’ve advocated for self expression and personal freedom. We’ve evolved, in real time, responding to and creating culture. We remain critical thought leaders and a platform for voices—the emerging, the outspoken and the legendary.   

We exist to create a culture where all people can pursue pleasure. Pleasure for all.   


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Bring in the New Year with Playmates from the 70s and 80s

2021 Calendar

Bring the Bling: Own the Rabbit Head Chain

Playboy on Wayfair

Products

She's an optimist, and herbalist, who manifests her dreams into existence 

Welcome Our September Playmate

What's New With Playboy

Explore Naked: Open Letters from the Playboy team

Get to Know Us

Seven Decades of Pleasure & Progress

 Heritage

The Playboy Interview With Keith Stroup

Drugs & Leisure

Bringing Down the House for 40 Years

The Playboy Jazz Fest

Playboy's Archive unearthed a priceless treasure: an unpublished Playboy Interview with Maya Angelou

The Playboy Interview With Maya Angelou

Winter 2019

Welcome to Hef’s Party

Playboy After Dark

The Playboy Interview With Jimmy Carter

Society

Our Heritage

We Won't Go Back: A Look at Playboy's History as a Pro-choice Advocate

On Playboy's History as a Weed Warrior

Our Action Plan

Civil Liberties

Defying the Anti-Porn Police

Spring 2019

Pride and Playboy

The Causes We Care About