The Playboy Reader
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Welcome to the official Playboy Substack.
get some size on you | Scenery Hill, PA native | columnist for UnHerd, RealClear, Washington Examiner, & The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette + regular contributor to The Ringer, The Paris Review, Men’s Health, &c.| ♉ | 700-pound deadlift most of the time
I write about a city that punishes you for caring
Chronicler of the radically weird
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.
Fashion & Cultural Historian
Culture science & politics writer | Publishers Weekly, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Scientific American, Nautilus, Al Jazeera
Author of “My Gaping Masshole.”
professional oversharer & author of Railed, where we celebrate being a sexual woman
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