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Women of Wall Street, 1989
Photography by David Mecey and James Schnepf
In August 1989, Playboy documented some of the beautiful women who donned shoulder pads every day on the trading floor. More than a novelty, though, television host Louis Rukeyser took the time...
This Mother's Day, Let Dads Do the Real Heavy Lifting
Photo via Getty Images
By Drew Hawkins
At the end of the third episode of his podcast, best-selling author, jiu jitsu black belt and former Navy SEAL, Jocko Willink, answers the question: How do you deal with setbacks, failures, delays, d...
Playboy Undercover: I Ran Into My Ex at a Sex Party
Photography by Dwight Hooker
Welcome to Playboy Undercover—where our anonymous columnists give you a peek of what's really going on, well, under the covers. From the curious to the downright kinky, our guides are pulling back the curtains...
Playboy Fiction: Leah
Illustration by Sunny Wu
This story appears in our Spring 2026 issue, on newsstands now. Want us to come to your place? Order the issue here to get it delivered to your door, or become a member to get digital access to the issue and early...
In Defense of the Pickup Artist
Photography by Joseph Szabo via Trunk Archives
This story appears in our Spring 2026 issue, on newsstands now. Want us to come to your place? Order the issue here to get it delivered to your door, or become a member to get digital access t...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Welcome to the official Playboy Substack.
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.
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.
I write about sexuality and culture for The New York Times, W, and more. Creator of Pleasure-Seeking, a newsletter about desire.
I'm a writer, podcaster and Sarah Michelle Gellar historian.
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.
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Founder of UserMag.co, a tech and online culture newsletter, and author of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet.
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.
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