Celebrating 65 Years Of Playboy’s Party Jokes

Winter, 2019

Along with compelling fiction and provocative pictorials, cocktail-hour chuckles stretch all the way back to the magazine’s inaugural issue. Here, a six-decade sampling of some of our favorite laughs from the pastJanuary 1956The dean of women at an exclusive girls’ school was lecturing her students on sexual morality. “We live today in very difficult times for young people. In moments of temptation,” she said, “ask yourself just one question: Is an hour of pleasure worth a lifetime of shame?”A y...