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This Bond Girl Posed For Playboy. Then, She Was Outed as Trans.
Tula Cossey, shot by Richard Fegley, for the For Your Eyes Only spread in the June, 1981 issue.
This story is a revisitation of a revisitation: on March 31st, for Trans Day of Visibility, we ran this 2015 interview by Shane Michael Singh w...
The Hidden History of Marilyn Monroe’s Lost Playboy Cover
Photography via Getty Images
Playboy’s first “Sweetheart of the Month,” Marilyn Monroe, died on August 4, 1962, at age 36. Her appearance on the cover and as the centerfold of the first issue of Playboy launched the magazine to success fro...
The Dark History of the Smiley Face
Photography via Getty Images
A month after JFK was shot dead in Dallas, the Smiley Face was birthed into the world. Within a decade it would become one of the most iconic and recognizable pieces of pop culture ephemera to exist. Everyone k...
The California Girls of Playboy, 1982
Look, I don’t care much to engage in the perpetual competition between the East Coast and West. I’m from Massachusetts and live in New York City, so you can guess where my allegiance stands. But looking at this washout Memorial Day weekend...
Let's Hear It for Small Dicks and Short Sex!
Illustration by Don Glassford, Playboy, July 1980
In my Brooklyn apartment a few weeks ago, I was straddling an approximately 6' 5" man (sorry, don’t mean to brag, but it’s, like, important to the story.)
It was that time of the night whe...
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Magdalene Taylor is a writer and critic of culture and sex, as well as the Senior Editor of PLAYBOY. She has written for the New York Times, GQ, New York Mag, Wall Street Journal, i-D and more. Her bestselling newsletter is called Many Such Cases.
Author of Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto. Editor-in-Chief of BOYSLUT, a digital zine sharing nonfiction and fiction erotica from kinksters across the globe, along with the occasional thought piece.
I write about sexuality and culture for The New York Times, W, and more. Creator of Pleasure-Seeking, a newsletter about desire.
professional oversharer & author of Railed, where we celebrate being a sexual woman
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Stevona (Stevie like Wonder!). Writer, educator, & cultural worker. Founder of Black Women Are For Grown-Ups. Bringing a Southern tongue to NYT, Essence, & i-D covers. Sharing truths gathered from the Black women who raised me on and off the page.
Brittney McNamara is an award-winning journalist, editor, and digital storyteller who reports on topics like bodily autonomy, youth culture, and civil rights. Her work has appeared in Playboy, Teen Vogue, Romper, and elsewhere.
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