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October is here! To celebrate, we're revisiting our favorite Playboy October covers over the years, like this Darine Stern cover from 1971. See more here (unpaywalled gallery): www.playboy.com/read/the-bes...

Darine Stern by Richard Fegley, October 1971 Playboy Cover

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Playboy @playboy.com · 24/09/2026

In 2004, Playboy visited Google's founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the then 31-year-old tech co-founders. At the time, the leading ethos of Google? Don’t be evil. What has happened? Read now: www.playboy.com/read/politic...

Playboy article ft. Google co-founders in print. At the time, they told Playboy that meant a few things: They were choosy about advertisers, had a social-good grant program, and a free email service (perhaps you’ve heard of it) that they promised would never “hold your emails hostage” if you wanted to leave. In the conversation, Google’s founders outline a vision that isn’t necessarily about making a web behemoth, but about connecting everyone to all the information they could ever need – arguably, that sounds like a force for good. And it was that idea that Page said made Google different from other search engines:

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Playboy @playboy.com · 23/09/2026

Are you satisfied with your sex life? Find out how you stack against Gen Z here: sexsurvey.playboy.com/quiz

Playboy quiz question: Are you satisfied with your sex life?

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Playboy @playboy.com · 23/09/2026

How often do you kiss someone? Do our quiz now: sexsurvey.playboy.com/quiz

From our Playboy sex quiz: How often do you kiss someone?

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Playboy @playboy.com · 22/09/2026

“When you have the vice president of the United States saying that he wants more babies and those of us who don’t have kids are childless cat ladies, that's not normal." Hey, JD Vance and everyone else who wants a clearer picture the Gen Z sex recession? Read our survey: sexsurvey.playboy.com#intro

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Playboy @playboy.com · 22/09/2026

Gen Z is an unusually sex-distressed generation, and it isn't because they don't want it. They're worried about sex and its consequences. Unsurprisingly, young people reported having less sex than prior generations. Being too online plays a central role. Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex-rel...

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Playboy @playboy.com · 18/09/2026

Playboy's Fall 2026 cover star Charli XCX opened up about feeling sexy and harnessing her confidence in her cover interview. That includes taking photos in front of tourists on a boat along the River Thames. Read the cover story here: www.playboy.com/read/charli-...

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Playboy @playboy.com · 16/09/2026

Charli XCX Is Playboy’s Fall Cover Star. Charli stopped for just long enough to shoot Playboy‘s Fall 2026 cover—fitting since her new album features a B-side called “Playboy Bunny.” She speaks about what makes her feel sexy, her relationship, and music. Read now: www.playboy.com/read/charli-...

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Playboy @playboy.com · 15/09/2026

Turns out we have a B-side too. Meet our Fall 2026 cover star tomorrow, and subscribe now for more. Can you guess who? www.playboy.com/choose-your-...

Playboy's Fall back cover star is a mystery, Here's a clue.

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Playboy @playboy.com · 14/09/2026

Iconic fashion and costume designer Bob Mackie has passed away at the age of 87. To honor him, we're resharing his 1979 creation for Playmate of the Year Monique St. Pierre for this cover. Read more about the dress here: www.playboy.com/read/recreat...

Playboy Cover ft. 1979 Playmate of the Year Monique St. Pierre created by Bob Mackie.

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Playboy @playboy.com · 07/09/2026

Being naked comes naturally for Luna Piombanti. But to find her freedom, she also had to find a new home. Our BTS with Miss September: playboy.com/read/miss-se...

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Playboy @playboy.com · 04/09/2026

Dolly Parton died last week, and as fans memorialize her by combing through the details of her life, many are realizing there’s at least one part of Dolly that they knew little about: her husband of 59 years. Cheers to a queen who doesn't need a hard-launch. www.playboy.com/read/sex-rel...

A post on X that says "dolly died without the world ever seeing her man. my president til the very end. thank you for your service queen."

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Playboy @playboy.com · 04/09/2026

Luna Piombanti has been arrested “like 1,000 times.” For what? “For my nails, for my hair, for clothes," she tells us. One time, she was arrested by Iran's morality police for walking with a man—her father. Miss September on finding freedom. Read now: www.playboy.com/read/miss-se...

Playboy's Miss September Luna Piombanti frolicks in a field with her dog. From our Playboy photoshoot.

Playboy's Miss September Luna Piombanti in our Playboy photo shoot

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Playboy @playboy.com · 01/09/2026

“I’ve been naked before in shoots, in movies. But it always made me feel a bit gross when it was for someone else... Today I had so much fun. I’ve never felt more comfortable in my body and in my sexuality." A lil BTS on our Playboy cover star Cara Delevingne. More: www.playboy.com/read/celebri...

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Playboy @playboy.com · 01/09/2026

September 1969. Shay Knuth photographed by Dwight Hooker. See more of our favorite covers here: www.playboy.com/read/the-ver...

September 1969. Shay Knuth photographed by Dwight Hooker. Cover

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Playboy @playboy.com · 28/08/2026

The men who aren’t working, at least the ones who responded to this tweet, believe they are victims of biased hiring practices. Read now: www.playboy.com/read/relatio...

A tweet from a user called The Hellenist that says: No self-respecting man wants to work in a office full of liberated women. It goes on to say they need to repeal the 19th Amendment and remove women from the workforce

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Playboy @playboy.com · 18/08/2026

Playboy teamed up with Hot Girls Care, an LA-based non-profit that saves dogs in danger of euthanasia at over-crowded shelters, to help them get some of their sweet pups adopted, so now is your big chance. More info: www.playboy.com/read/pups-an...

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Playboy @playboy.com · 13/08/2026

“If we can get a girl whose face reads passive, chill, feminine… and then we hit them with the fucking horseshit,” a course leader says (referring to sexual content), “that’s great because [the customer] is getting psychologically confused.” Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex-rel...

An AI model mock up from the course that shows a woman in pigtails.

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Playboy @playboy.com · 13/08/2026

Here's a fake cam girl a man who goes by "Scotty Pimp" made during his course on getting rich quick off creating AI models. “We are marketing a girl, right?” The irony? The creators are men. The customers are men. Behind every flirty post or DM is another man. www.playboy.com/read/sex-rel...

@lena.mendozaa, an AI model created from this course by men on how to make fake AI cam girls to monetize with. Courtesy of the creator.

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Playboy @playboy.com · 06/08/2026

Miss August's Lydia Bielen was once a Tarot card reader. What lies ahead for you this month? She breaks it down. See the full pictorial and interview with Miss August here: www.playboy.com/read/enterta...

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Playboy @playboy.com · 04/08/2026

“I think my favorite hobby lately has been camping and hiking, and just being able to kind of survive by myself outside in the woods." Meet Playboy's Miss August: Lydia Bielen. Read here: www.playboy.com/read/enterta...

Photo of Lydia Bielen in camping / hiking boots from our Miss August shoot. For her shoot with Playboy as Miss August, Bielen contributed her own creative vision.

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Playboy @playboy.com · 02/08/2026

A look back at some of our favorite August Playboy covers, from the 70s to Dan Aykroyd and Pamela Anderson in 1993. See more here: www.playboy.com/read/the-ver...

Dan Aykroyd and Pamela Anderson by Stephen Wayda, August 1993

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Playboy @playboy.com · 30/07/2026

What are the incel men up to over on X? Focussing on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Our take? "Making women mad and getting likes from fellow incels is all they have going for them." Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex/the...

An X post by user @BrianAtlas that reads: "Hiplet trend of men refusing to date women with hip dips is INFURIATING women. If it’s okay for women to have a height preference, it’s okay for men to prefer to date women without hip dips." It comes with a diagram.

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Playboy @playboy.com · 22/07/2026

Street drugs are cheaper and stronger than they’ve ever been, and they’re far more likely to kill you. The government’s advice hasn’t changed much since Nancy Reagan, but drugs have. Now, scientists are writing their own rules and we have a guide here. Read more: www.playboy.com/read/politic...

Impulse SF's adapted interactive chart on clear information on mixing drugs. This comes as American street drugs are cheaper and stronger than they’ve ever been, and they’re far more likely to kill you.

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Playboy @playboy.com · 21/07/2026

At first, our cover star Cara Delevingne considered releasing her music under a pseudonym to avoid the preconceptions people might have about her. Now, along with her Playboy shoot, she's going all in. How she found support from Stevie Nicks for her new album: www.playboy.com/read/celebri...

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Playboy @playboy.com · 17/07/2026

"We are both the initiator and the victim of a hopeless, bitter war that has ripped aside so many of our more comfortable illusions about ourselves. .. Now we have more doubts about that capacity to deal with social problems," Halberstam wrote in Playboy. Read now: www.playboy.com/read/politic...

David Halberstam’s “The Americanization of Vietnam,” one of the most powerful critiques of America’s divergent presence in Southeast Asia, was published by this magazine in January 1970. It was the culmination of a series of antiwar articles run by Playboy, a magazine widely read by the young men fighting in Vietnam. (“One of the things that made my Vietnam tour endurable was seeing Playboy every month,” a soldier wrote the magazine upon returning home.)

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Playboy @playboy.com · 15/07/2026

Carmen Electra first appeared in Playboy in May, 1996. She became a mainstay, racking up countless covers and pictorials in our pages. She made her return to the magazine in our Summer 2026 issue, reflecting on her past work. Watch the full video here: www.playboy.com/read/carmen-...

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Playboy @playboy.com · 14/07/2026

"I feel like I'm in my prime as a woman and as a sexual being." Read Cara Delevingne's Playboy Summer 2026 cover story, in which she opens up about sex, sobriety, and being the first out lesbian woman to appear on our print cover. www.playboy.com/read/celebri...

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Playboy @playboy.com · 14/07/2026

Introducing our Summer Issue 2026 cover star: Cara Delevingne. In our interview, Delevingne opens up about sobriety, sexuality, and her new relationship. Read now: www.playboy.com/read/celebri...

Playboy's Summer Issue Cover Star Cara Delevingne

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Playboy @playboy.com · 29/06/2026

Lesbian advice every straight guy should know with Muna. "Sex actually starts hours before you think it does." See the full pictorial now: www.playboy.com/read/celebri...

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Playboy @playboy.com · 29/06/2026

The indie pop trio had to bare it all to make the sweatiest, most urgent music of their career. www.playboy.com/read/celebri...

"We think about our images in a way that reflects art to us. WE're creating a canvas." - Josette Maskin of Muna

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Playboy @playboy.com · 17/06/2026

Gabrielle Richardson, model and art gallery owner, is our Playmate of the Month. She talks to Zeba Blay about being a Black queer woman in the art space and how, without anyone guide her, she defined her beauty for herself. Miss June 2026: www.playboy.com/read/miss-ju...

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Playboy @playboy.com · 14/06/2026

So, this Pride Month, it’s in the spirit of inclusion that we present to you some gay vintage cartoons. From a wink at male camaraderie in the ’70s all the way to the gay marriage debate of the 2010s, let’s have a laugh. See more here: www.playboy.com/read/happy-p...

“Come Anthony — or we’ll miss the protest rally.” Alden Erikson, 1970.

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Playboy @playboy.com · 13/06/2026

Happy Birthday to our 2001 Playmate of the Year Brande Roderick!

2001 Playboy Cover with Playmate of the Year Brande Roderick

Brande Roderick on a motorcycle (photoshoot from PMOY 2001 cover)

Brande Roderick with a surf board (photoshoot from PMOY 2001 cover)

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Playboy @playboy.com · 09/06/2026

For a Black teenage girl in the mid-2010s, Tumblr stood outside mainstream culture’s narrow definitions of what was beautiful, interesting, or worthy of attention. “It was the first place where I saw myself in art,” she says. Read about Richardson here: www.playboy.com/read/miss-ju...

Gabrielle Richardson, the model and art gallery owner, is our Playmate of the Month.

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Playboy @playboy.com · 29/05/2026

Dating apps didn't kill romance. It just made it harder to meet people in real life. @magdalene.bsky.social breaks down our guide to meeting women in 2026, a field guide to making a connection—without swiping first. Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex-rel....

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Playboy @playboy.com · 19/05/2026

Hello Bluesky. It's Playboy. For our first, and timely post, we share our latest investigation into OpenAI's disastrous plans to become x-rated. "Altman’s idea of an “erotica” feature seemed riddled in uncertainty." Read our piece "Why ChatGPT Can't Be Sexy" here: www.playboy.com/read/politic...

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