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20 Questions with Johnny Knoxville, July 2001
Photography by Randee St. Nicholas
This story originally appeared in the July 2001 issue of Playboy. 25 years later, for our forthcoming July 2026 issue, we interviewed fellow Jackass icon Steve-O. The full interview on sobriety, clown col...
My Dad's Best Parenting Advice: Raise My Daughter Like a Boy
A few Saturdays back, I was the only father at a watercolor workshop in an Allegheny County community room, turning a sheet of white paper into brown sludge while my six-year-old daughter painted something decent and, as is her wont, imperi...
So, I Slept With My TaskRabbit
Photography by Zoey Grossman
“He’s outside,” Mom texted me. I, a 23-year-old recent college graduate and sugar baby subletting a “bedroom” in a mickey-moused loft on the border of Williamsburg and Bushwick off the Morgan Ave L stop with th...
Playboy Undercover: Diary of a Simp
Photography by Charlotte Rutherford
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 cu...
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...
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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
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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.
Fashion & Cultural 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.
Author of “My Gaping Masshole.”
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.
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